Raleigh-Three months later
Golden Slumbers by Jennifer Hudson
“Once there was a way, to get back homeward.
Once there was a way, to get back home.
Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby.”
I pause singing as Braxton’s heavy eyelids finally droop closed. His little mouth is open as he drifts off for his nap. Ryland conked out on me after the first verse but not my little man. He waits until I finish the song every time. Dad sang that song to us almost every night growing up. He started it when I was born because the words resonated with him. We weren’t home, he was in hiding presumably dead and Mom in a coma. It became our nighttime lullaby. A tradition I wanted to keep also. I had chosen a different song originally but found myself humming this one instead.
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