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 your 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
That box there full of of regret
By the pictures of the

You get faint recollections of your mother's sigh, countryside
And the landscape seen from the window of the backseat with some flowers in a

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

And a hush fell over everything 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 kept
You recall faintly cards, tiny clothes, and the smell of the in the upstairs bedroom
Until then you didn't know what the box had held

Your parents tiptoeing slowly around speaking in code

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

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

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

You were
A vagueness, a faded
You visions

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

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

There's the box in the closet, all the kept
And the where she left
Flowers on the grave, marble where they that name
And mother cried the whole way

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

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

On the day he died
By their bed in eyes
us grandkids said our goodbyes

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