This poem can relate to everyone in the sense that everyone loses a loved one within their life time. But, I don’t believe that everyone can relate to the father who lost his daughter as an infant. But as I grew up my mother gradually told me about my older sister. I wasn’t born at the time and I also came find out that I wouldn’t be the oldest, but instead I would have an older sister, and she would be one year older than me. I was surprised to find this out because I wasn’t aware that I had an older sister. Not only did she die but, she passed away at the age of one month. She was also my parents first child, just like the kings daughter, was his first as well. My dad discovered her pale in her crib in the middle of the night, when he had woken up to get water. I wasn’t born at the time and I came to also find out that I wouldn’t be the oldest, but instead I would be the second oldest, and she would be one year older than me.
When my parents told me about my sister, I began to cry. Just thinking that I could have a sister, an older sister, that I could have someone to guide me, someone to talk to as an older sister. It is very sad to think about it that way, but my mom and dad viewed it the same way the father did. At first they would grieve over her death, but they now explain to me that she’s in heaven now because she was one of God’s innocent creations, and she is now with Him. Their loss is less painful to them and to me think about her death in that way. It is true, she never did anything wrong, and if she passed away it was because God wanted it that way.
Hearing about someone losing a family member is very sad to hear, but when it comes to an infant it’s much sadder, because they were innocent beings who never did anything wrong. The most painful feeling is when a mother or father looses their child. These cases are very sad, but they can be less painful if you console yourself or the affected ones to understand that they are God’s creation, and like the poem says, “Yet all heaven’s gifts, being heaven’s due” meaning that they are now in heaven.
When my parents told me about my sister, I began to cry. Just thinking that I could have a sister, an older sister, that I could have someone to guide me, someone to talk to as an older sister. It is very sad to think about it that way, but my mom and dad viewed it the same way the father did. At first they would grieve over her death, but they now explain to me that she’s in heaven now because she was one of God’s innocent creations, and she is now with Him. Their loss is less painful to them and to me think about her death in that way. It is true, she never did anything wrong, and if she passed away it was because God wanted it that way.
Hearing about someone losing a family member is very sad to hear, but when it comes to an infant it’s much sadder, because they were innocent beings who never did anything wrong. The most painful feeling is when a mother or father looses their child. These cases are very sad, but they can be less painful if you console yourself or the affected ones to understand that they are God’s creation, and like the poem says, “Yet all heaven’s gifts, being heaven’s due” meaning that they are now in heaven.
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