Hold Them A Little Closer  
   I pray you never walk through  The agony I've known  I pray that all your little ones  Will stay until they've grown.  I pray that you can really hear  My heartbroken cries  So you will know the anguish  When A Child Dies.  
   I pray it makes you hold them  Closer to your breast  And savor every moment  As if it were the best.  For none of us can ever know  How soon they will be gone  And we we'll have the memories  To hold us in the dawn.  
   Oh dear and tired mother  Of rambunctious little lambs  Do not grow weary of washing  And helping little hands.  Remember that these precious ones  May not be with us long  And we will have to suffer  Such pain when they are gone.  
   So when you cry at one more day  Of toys spread on the floor  Imagine if they weren't there  To mess up anymore.  Think of all those precious times  You'll miss and wish you had  You'll see those things that irked you so  They weren't all that bad.  
   Hold them closer for awhile  And stroke their silky hair  And hug them gently once for me  I wish that I were there.  For as I cry out for my son  Who cannot feel my touch  My heart cries out to tell you all  You can never love too much...  |