Song Lyrics to a song about child loss, You're Free Now Child, written by Beth Brown, My Forever Son: Chronicling Grief, Hope, and Healing After Losing My Son to Suicide, photographed for "You're Free Now Child: A Song About Losing My Son"

Lyrics: “And I Can’t See Where You’ve Gone” by Beth Brown, My Forever Son

You’re Free Now Child: A Song About Child Loss

Songs for Child Loss

I write poems and songs about child loss because I lost my only son. If you’ve lost a child, then you know the acute pain of grieving your child. It’s impossible, it’s ongoing, and it’s soul searching. I am always thinking about my son, loving and missing him, what could have, should have, would have been.

I find hope and healing writing poems and songs. Perhaps in listening and reading, you will, too.

I also write poems about losing a child. You can read them here-Find Hope Here: Featuring Poems About Losing a Child

You’re Free Now Child


You’re Free Now Child
All music & lyrics ©Beth Brown
You're Free Now Child

I can't see where you've gone
And I don't know how to just go on
Without you can't find my way
Don't know where to go or what to say
How to breathe without you now
When it aches upon my soul

In my heart, you live forever, with me by my side
In my life, you're all I ever wanted
My child, my one true love
Without you here, each day that passes 
is just another day I must survive

How to keep on keeping on
How to open up my eyes
Again to see what God has done
You're free now child of mine to fly

So rest on easy fly on by
Soul travel now to be with God
My dearest child, my heart of mine
Know I'll be there when it's time

I miss you more than words
More than galaxies are wide
I long to hold you as you were
To have you reach across inside
To where you live forever
And to where I hold you close for life

How to keep on keeping on
How to open up my eyes
Again to see what God has done
You're free now child of mine to fly

So rest on easy fly on by
Soul travel now to be with God
My dearest child, my heart of mine
Know I'll be there when it's time

Lyrics, You're Free Now Child
All Music & Lyrics ©Beth Brown

You’re Free Now Child

Sorrow Buried in Love: A Poem About Losing A Child
Sorrow Buried in Love

So swish to sway to sweet lullaby,
Baby will fall in dark of the night.
Rocking cradle to grave turning truth upside down: 
Parents die first leaving children behind.

In a world topsy-turvy that cannot make sense,
Sacred trust shines the brightest in a child’s innocence.
When children die first leaving parents behind,
Hope flees with the child leaving grief here for life. 

To live without sorrow seems an admirable stance,
To love without pain always breaking your heart,
To smile again when it’s been enough time, 
To heal back to whole what was once then your life.

Yet the loss of a child can’t be undone,
Even though bid us well, wishing hope move us on.
We can move only forward with our child whom we love,
Always there with us always, sorrow buried in love.

Beth Brown, ©2022
Sorrow Buried in Love

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