Written as a shadow for the Spintunes 15 Rd 2 challenge "Gratitune", Write a song that expresses or conveys genuine gratitude for someone or something. Your song may be fictional but the expression of gratitude should be sincere. Your song must include vocal harmonies.
My next door neighbor is alive today because a child died 25 years ago. She remarked to me recently. "I was watching Isabella and realized she is the age of the girl whose liver I received." A powerful thought to have, truly bitter sweet, and it was this that I wanted to convey in my song. Back then, transplant donors families and the people whose lives were saved were not able to communicate with each other. I am glad that today they are given the option of sending letters, and possibly meeting each other. I have seen videos of people listening to the heart beat of their child in another person's body, and am getting teary remembering it as I type.
My uncle had a heart transplant from a 16 year old who had died in a car wreck; we got to have him and all his wonderful silliness for 16 more years because of it, far more than the 5 years they hope the transplant will not be rejected.
25 years for my neighbor...both she and her daughter are living miracles.
Please sign an organ donor card; tell your family you have done so. Don't take your organs to heaven- heaven knows we need them here!
lyrics
I Wish (Jennifer's Song)
I was young, but I was dying
Didn’t think that I’d see twenty
I would never have a husband
Or children in my life
She was young, her life was over
Taken from you in an instant
You would never hold her children
She would never be a wife
Oh, I wish you could see her!
See her playing in the yard
I wish you could meet her!
She’s the age your daughter was
When in your grief you gave my life to me-
I wish you could see her
Thank you! Thank you!
For my daughter for my husband
For my life
Thank You! Thank you!
I pray your grief was lighter
With the knowledge that
You gave another, life
Time has passed, it seems so quickly
But the years are five and twenty
I got to have a husband
And a daughter of my own
You’re older too, I’m sure you miss her
I’ll never know if you had others
I hope you had more children
I hope you haven’t been alone
I wish you could see her!
Blonde hair shining in the sun
I wish you could meet her!
Know your child’s life is not done
She’s alive in me, and in my daughter too-
I wish you could see her.
Thank you! Thank you!
For my daughter for my husband
For my life
Thank You! Thank you!
I pray your grief was lighter
With the knowledge that
You gave another, life
credits
from Spintunes 15 songs,
released November 18, 2018
JoAnn Abbott- Lyrics and singing and basic tune
Ted Kiper- piano and editing and harmonies and general wonderfulness
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