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Mansions Side by Side

The doctor’s voice was heavy

"There was nothing we could do"

He just didn’t know what he was talking about

He had the wrong child; I knew that to be true.

I held her gently for she was only sleeping

 I kissed her beautiful cheek and studied her face,

I ask her to wake up and talk to me

Her lashes looked to me like lace.

There seemed to be something more

I was supposed to understand that gave me only grief.

When the nurse said I have to leave my baby

I was totally consumed by a horror that had no relief.

God talked to me today by showing me the way

My precious daughter went to sleep on a car seat that day

Then woke up on a Heavenly white cloud lined in silver, no gray.

God let me visit Heaven to stand by her side

To watch her change from a child to a bride.

I could see her smile and feel her touch

With that God filled my soul so very much.

I dreamt I was in Heaven with the people angels

Standing on a cloud with the chore book I was to read.

For her mom my darling daughter had need,

To help them understand how to care for us still on earth.

 

Today she walks with Our Jesus in his care,

I know Kandace will be waiting for me there.

Through the golden streets we will run

Showing me everything she has seen and sharing in the fun.

In her seventeen years on earth with me she always did say

My house would be next to hers when she got married some day.

And now our mansions will be side by side.

 

IN MEMORY OF KANDACE DAWN LABERDEE, 11-7-86 – 7-2-04