She didn’t get a Spring
Today I have been feeling really sad
I always feel a little sad
Every single day
But today it was more than that
And I was not sure why
Until I was talking with a friend on Twitter
And I realised
It hit me hard
Left me tearful and breathless
She didn’t get a spring
She didn’t see a spring
She never felt it coming
She was born in the summer
She died in the winter
She never saw a spring
She did not see the frolicking baby lambs
Experience an explosion of daffodils
She did not see a shower of blossom and think that it was snow
She never saw buds appear on the trees
Or flowers start to bloom
She did not run across a lawn,
Her bare feet tickled by the grass
She never felt the spring sunshine
Warm the pale winter skin of her bare arms
She did not learn to love the feeling
Of turning her face to the sun
Matilda Mae never walked through bluebells
Nor made a daisy chain
She did not see birds build their nests
Or have a chance to hunt for frogspawn
She did not have a spring
She never saw this season
This season of colour
New life and beginnings
She never saw the spring
Didn’t get one
Never saw one
She never felt it coming
She is the spring, now. x
I wish for many springs for all of you in the future – and your love must have provided her with such happiness while she was with you.
She looks so happy in that photo. I feel sad for you too that she didn’t see spring. You are a wonderful mother, and what you are doing now for sids awareness is also wonderful. With the best wishes, Sasha x
Bless you, I wish she was here to feel all of those things xx
Utterly heartbreaking. More so that Spring is all about new life and should never ever be about death of a beautiful little girl, or any baby for that matter.
But she had so much love – it transposed all the season, she was so loved xxxx
This is truly heartbreaking Jennie. You write so beautifully xxx