She Didn’t Get A Spring

She didn’t get a Spring

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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

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She never saw the spring

Didn’t get one

Never saw one

She never felt it coming

6 thoughts on “She Didn’t Get A Spring

  1. 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

  2. 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

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