Luyện nghe bài hát The Child We Lost 1963

There shadows in the bedroom
the light got thrown by the lamp on the nightstand
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 of letters of regret
By the of the kids

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

That afternoon after school you and your older
Found your parents in the 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 didn't what it meant
That they never said her name aloud 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 what the box had

Your parents tiptoeing around always speaking in code

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

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

From here, place
To in the nighttime shadows she made
To be an absence in mom, a sadness over her
Like some pentacostal flame, 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, then you tumbled

are shadows that fall still here 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 they that name
And mother cried the whole way

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

After grandpa got hospice sick and he fall sleep
They his stretcher bed beside her at night
And I saw the

On the day he died
By bed in grandma's eyes
While us said our goodbyes

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