When Baby Tilda died
Fell asleep and never woke
I thought my heart might turn to stone
Instead it burst and broke
Tiny jagged fragments
Spilled out across the earth
As I mourned the tiny baby
To whom I’d given birth
My heart was torn
My head in pain
I thought, still think
I’d never love again
I needed to channel energy
Into productive things
The funeral, cremation
Giving our baby her angel wings
None of that seemed enough
To show the world what it had lost
The day our beautiful daughter died
It did not show the cost
A world without Matilda
Is a darker one
Nothing tastes, or has meaning
Since Baby Tilda’s been gone
But this baby deserved some colour
She deserved the moon and sky
She deserved the love of all the world
That is a worse place because she died
And so we made her a garden
A place to flower and bloom
Pink and purple shoots and stars
A little breathing room
Her garden is a peaceful place
The flowers burst with scent
Everything grows strong and tall
It’s beauty seems heaven sent
Baby Tilda is our angel
She watches us from above
And we paint the earth with flowers
To make sure she sees our love.
Baby Tilda’s garden
A place of memory
Lilies, roses, daisies too
Her special cherry tree
It is a place of saddest love
A place that calls for peace
A garden at the heart of our family home
Where Baby Tilda will always be.
Losing a precious baby
Suddenly without being forewarned
I am not sure how you ever come back from that
How the night ever again sees dawn
A hole in your heart
Can never be filled
No matter how hard you try
Not even a garden
Can warm the chill
That is left when your baby dies.
Having seen it, I can say that Baby Tilda’s Garden does indeed have a very special energy all of it’s own. I know it’s nowhere near enough to heal your broken heart but it is very beautiful. x x x x
Baby Tilda’s garden is just gorgeous and a lovely way to mark her presence on the earth x
What beautiful words and such a beautiful garden. I was absolutely stunned at how magnificent the garden is. Everything is growing so wonderfully, almost as though it has been sprinkled with magic!
xxx
Just beautiful Jennie xx
Beautiful garden, in memory of a beautiful girl. You must feel some sort of peace when in Tilda’s garden, it has grown magnificently by the looks of it x
Very, very beautiful.
Making a memorial garden for Matilda Mae was such a brilliant idea: it’s beautiful, as is she x
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