No Reason At All
A chance path crossing with someone who needed help…so many years she was haunted by the death of her 19 year old sister who was killed so tragically…a loaded shotgun caught in her coat being pulled from the closet…so many years carrying the burden of not being there for her little sister, and also the mother who found her child that day.
This song wrote itself, both the words and the music came together, and fortunately the recorder was turned on at the time. After giving the song to the troubled surviving sister, and her sharing it with her mother, they were finally able to talk about that horrible event… and the sister who remained buried was able to live again, as the pictures came out from their hiding places.
If I ever had doubts about purpose in my life or the why connected with any personal pain over these past years, those thoughts have been abated. Perhaps now I can finally move forward and find healing for myself…possibilities for myself.
No Reason At All © 2004 by Stephen J. Cramer
No Reason At All
(Dedicated to Joan Elizabeth)
Sometimes angels cry
And we ask
What could have happened?
And why
Dear God why?
Sometimes mothers cry
And they ask
How could it have happened?
No, why!
Oh God why?
There’s no comfort
Only tears
There’re no answers
Only prayers
There’s no reason
At all
Not at all.
Sometimes sisters cry
And they ask
Why wasn’t it me
Who died?
But no
Then I’d have no daughter
Have no sons
And never see
My little ones
So many angels
Would have to die
Oh no
So sometimes late at night
When I feel you are near
I see your face and whisper
Hello
Hello
Written 1-27-2004, Copyright protected by SJC.