This song is my kryptonite. T and I listen to lots of music when we're playing, and sometimes I'll put on the Pandora kid's music station so that we hear a variety of tunes. They play a version of this song that hits my heart in ways many things don't these days. (Triplets born to a girl I went to high school with, who was featured in the paper and is mentioned at our church every Sunday? Surprisingly, I'm doing okay with that.) But man, that song.
I'm guessing that it would be similar for any parent who's lost a baby...or heck, anyone who's lost anyone! How this became such a popular "kids' song" is beyond me. The lyrics just cut too close to the bone:
The other night dear
As I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you
In my arms
When I awoke dear
I was mistaken
and I hung my head and cried
Suddenly that was me...happily playing with my Tate, then hanging my head as I cried. The third (third! How is that possible?!) anniversary of our triplets' birth/death is next weekend. And even as I hear the exuberant shouts of T-man as he races in circles around the house and my heart rejoices, there's a hollow place there. I miss them. I still pine for their presence in our lives. My little lost sunshines.
Thursday, September 15
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that song makes me bawl!!!! i have the same thoughts. it is interesting how a lot of people overlook those lyrics. i will be thinking of you on the triplets' third birthday. it is so hard. ((((hugs))))
I nearly teared up just reading this. What a beautiful song indeed- the same thing happens to me! Here we are holding our sunshine and missing our others.
The anniversaries don't seem to get easier. Thinking of your three precious baby boys and you DH & Tate!
That song does the same to me. I cried just reading this post...and I didn't ever really think about it until I started singing it to our little man one day, and as I sang and paid attention to the lyrics I started sobbing (poor guy was so confused). Thinking of you and your family.
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