Luyện nghe bài hát The Child We Lost 1963

There shadows in the bedroom
Where the light got thrown by the on the nightstand
On your mother's side, midnight, still
You can see it all
You can see it all
And the closet in the
On the far shelf with the keepsakes, she hid
That box there full of letters of
By the of the kids

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

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

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

Though you understand what it meant
That they never said her name around you
Even at the table with her things they'd kept
You recall faintly cards, clothes, and the smell of the paint in the upstairs bedroom
Until then you didn't that's what the box had held

Your tiptoeing slowly around always speaking in code

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

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

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

You visions
A vagueness, a image
You were

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

There are shadows that still here at a certain angle
In the bedroom on the nightstand by your side
From the light on there

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

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

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

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

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