Luyện nghe bài hát The Child We Lost 1963

There were shadows in the
Where the light got 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 shelf with the keepsakes, she hid
box there full of letters of regret
By the of the kids

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

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

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

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

Your parents slowly around always speaking in code

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

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

here, some place
To remain in the 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 image
You were

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

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

the box in the closet, all the things kept
And the where she left
Flowers on the grave, marble where they etched name
And mother the whole way home

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

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

On the day that he
By their bed in eyes
While us grandkids said our

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