REST IN PEACE, OUR ANGEL KAI-LI

How ironic that my post yesterday was entitled, "Celebrate Life."

It worked for a while because earlier yesterday? Life still felt...normal. Until it just wasn't...anymore.

We lost our precious niece to Epidermolysis Bullosa, yesterday where in our hearts we all know that where she is now? Is the best place she could ever be, but selfish hearts like ours pain because in human nature, we want her, where we can see her, and smell her and hold her and watch her grow because the truth is that her pain and suffering is now all gone.

Some of us never got to meet this little Angel, and it almost seems cruel that she passed a day before we actually would get that chance. But in her three months of life? She's taken and wrapped her heart around ours, along with countless other people, near and far, who were praying so hard that we'd see a miracle in her. At the end of it all, she was the miracle, I believe.

What if tomorrow never comes? I've seen that question countless times, whether it be on some social media site or whether it be on email. But I never could, before today, tell you what it meant to me;

Our Angel Kai-Li

If tomorrow never comes
Just like it won't do for us
It takes away our only chance
To hold a hero in our arms

If tomorrow never comes
There'd be no way for you to see

The many hearts that you'd held in your very tiny hands
Or feel yourself surrounded by more love than you could stand

If tomorrow never comes
We'd beg the heavens for a favour

And that's to please take us back to the day before
So that we'd still have a day with you, just one more

But tomorrow? Tomorrow never came
That kind of tomorrow will never come again
The one where we finally get to look into those big pretty eyes
A tomorrow where we get to hear your baby cries

Instead, the tomorrow that we'll get?
Is the one without you, the one with regret

The one where we always wonder about the sound of your voice
The way that you blink or how you react to our noise

But all the tomorrows that follow this day
We will love you like we always did, we will love you the same
A martyr of strength, our youngest baby girl
To us, you mean nothing less than the world!

RIP our Angel Kai-Li
You've filled our hearts
2012.12.22
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