Luyện nghe bài hát The Child We Lost 1963

There were in the bedroom
Where the light got thrown by the lamp on the
On mother's side, after midnight, still
You can see it all
You can see it all
And the closet in the
On the far back shelf the keepsakes, she hid
box there full of letters of regret
By the of the kids

You get faint recollections of your sigh, countryside drive
And the landscape from the window of the backseat with some flowers in a basket

That after school you and your older sisters
Found your parents in the at the table
Father off the lid of the box

And a fell over everything like a funeral prayer
A reverence, ancestral, in the air

Though you understand what it meant
That they said her name aloud around you
Even sitting at the table with her things they'd
You recall faintly cards, clothes, and the smell of the paint in the upstairs bedroom
Until then you didn't know that's the box had held

Your parents tiptoeing slowly around always speaking in

No, they never said her name aloud you
Only told you it was perfect your sister went
And you didn't understand why it them so much then that she'd come and left so soon
Could only guess inside your head at a "stillbirth" meant
Only that mother wept

You watched while father her, said "Some things come but can't stay here."
You saw a brightness. Like a light through your closed tight then she tumbled away.

From here, some
To in the nighttime shadows she made
To be an in mom, a sadness hanging over her
Like pentacostal flame, drifting on and off
She was "Sister," whispered.
"Her" or
"The We Lost."

You were
A vagueness, a faded
You were

You were a flame lit that burned out twice as as the rest of us did
When you left, you were light, you tumbled away

There are shadows that fall still at a certain angle
In the bedroom on the nightstand by your mother's
From the left on there

There's the box in the closet, all the things
And the landscape she left
Flowers on the grave, marble where etched that name
And cried the whole way home

But she never said it out loud
On the way back from where you thought they meant
When they where sister went

After got hospice sick and he couldn't fall sleep
They wheeled his bed beside her at night
And I saw the

On the day that he
By their bed in grandma's
While us said our goodbyes

She "don't cry"
Somewhere he her
Said a name I recognize
And the light all the shadows combined