I know I have posted this in some blog or another before, but it's one of those things that is part of me. Mainly because it is a deeply imbedded childhood memory. Songs that mother sang to me as a child while putting me to bed. One of those songs that reminds me of love. First love, loving that primary caregiver in that symbiotic way that children do with that person. Mom is old now. Very old. Her age is beginning to tell now. She did not have the strength to travel on to Arkansas to visit when she went to Houston a few weeks back. I have a feeling she went to Houston to say goodbye to some of her siblings. I am not sure she will be travelling this way again. Not in this flesh in this life time anyway.

These are the kind of things you think of when your parents grow old and you know that life does not last forever. You don't so much remember the pain they caused you anymore. Hopefully you have healed from all that and gone on with life. Hopefully you have had some kind of resolution, a forgiving over all the hurts. Hopefully what is left as the vivid memories are something as simple and tender as a song about loving your child.  

Please feel free to follow the link to listen to a midi of this song: 

http://www.contemplator.com/wales/allnight.html

All Through the Night

Sleep my child and peace attend thee,
All through the night
Guardian angels God will send thee,
All through the night
Soft the drowsy hours are creeping
Hill and vale in slumber sleeping,
I my loving vigil keeping
All through the night.

While the moon her watch is keeping
All through the night
While the weary world is sleeping
All through the night
O'er they spirit gently stealing
Visions of delight revealing
Breathes a pure and holy feeling
All through the night.

Love, to thee my thoughts are turning
All through the night
All for thee my heart is yearning,
All through the night.
Though sad fate our lives may sever
Parting will not last forever,
There's a hope that leaves me never,
All through the night.

I love you Mom, I love you Dad. Don't ever forget or doubt that.

Ciao