I Named Her After You

It’s our wedding day. We make our own vows.
Our dream has come true. We’re getting married now.

Now honeymooners, making love and you conceive.
You announce you’re pregnant. I’m living my own dream!

Two months soon pass. You begin to show.
We shop for our baby at each and every store.

Five months now pass. We find we’ll have a girl.
I’m happy, feeling free…feeling like the king of the world!

Seven months now pass. I see your belly move.
Putting my ear to your stomach, could’ve sworn I heard her coo!

Nine months now come. We’ll have a healthy baby.
Soon I’ll hold my firstborn.  My wife’s a beautiful lady!

There with you in the delivery room. You’re about to give birth.
In pain you begin to scream and the pains are getting worse.

Our daughter is now born; oh she’s such a beautiful girl!
She’ll be a lovely one; the most beautiful girl in the world!

But something’s going wrong, suddenly there’s a panic scene.
Tell me this isn’t happening; tell me this is just adream.

My wife is now dying from the results of giving birth.
Grab my heart. A panic attack! I pull away, but can’t…it hurts.

I run to her side, “Honey, please don’t you die!”
Telling me she’s gone, “We tried to save her; we really tried.”

They’re pulling me from her body. I just can’t break away.
Can’t believe that she’s gone! Forever we were to stay.

“My wife, O’ my wife: if only I could die for you!
You left me to be a single parent, now what am I to do?”

“My wife, O’ my wife, never got to hold your daughter.
Never dreamed in a million years you’d leave me a singlefather!”

“My wife! My god, my wife! You’re my soul, my life, my heart!
How am I to make it in this life from which you’ve depart?”

Here I am a single parent. How can I go on?
Why did it have to end like this? What did I do wrong?

Promise to raise our daughter; and to keep memories of you.
I named her after you, my love…I named her after you.

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