LAURA’S SONG

I hung up the phone full of dismay
heard the tragic news
​   that a friend and colleague passed away

What can I say … What can I say???
It’s sad but true and there is nothing I can do

Laura’s death reminds me
how precious life can truly be

She lost the battle but won the war
Gave birth to a baby boy a few weeks before

A beautiful woman, a loving wife
A caring teacher and friend
   and a mother of three bundles of joy

They’ll only have memories of mom
that are shared with them
   through stories, pictures and poems

I sing this song now that she’s gone
so her memory, her memory lives on

The day before Laura passed away
She wrote these words on a page:

Opera transforms us
from the mundane
transfigures us from the ordinary.
Nowhere can you find such
gorgeous redemption
beauty in tragedy
joy in sorrow.

Her words live on even though she’s gone
her words live on when I sing this song

And I celebrate the beauty and joy
that continue on
   through her two young children and her newborn boy

Her words live on even though she’s gone
beauty and joy continue on

And I think of her when I sing this song
her memory her memory lives on