+10I walked away that morning,
Without a backward glance.
I didn’t know that moment
Was going to be our last.
The last time I would hold you,
Or see your lovely face.
The last time I would kiss you
And feel your strong embrace.
So solid and so real,
So vibrant and alive,
A happy face with twinkling eyes,
My fine young man, my child.
My first-born son, my Adam,
The apple of my eye.
So cruelly taken from me,
We never said goodbye.
The shattered remnant of my heart
Is strangely beating, still,
With holes so black and fathomless
No light could ever fill.
I don’t know how I face each day
Without my darling boy.
Gone is all the happiness,
The love of life, the joy.
The years stretch on before me
So bleak and dark and long,
I pray you walk beside me, son
And help to keep me strong.
And when my life is over,
Come to me on that day,
And smile at me and hold me tight
And carry me away.
The wind that whispers through the trees,
The brightest star at night,
A rainbow on a dismal day,
A shaft of golden light.
All these are signs you send to me,
Your message from above,
That even death can’t break the bonds,
Of Son and Mother Love…
This poem was written/submitted by Tracy Lamont.
+6The days are long without you here,
I’ve sat and cried a thousand tears,
That cruel fate, did my life, destroy
And take away my lovely boy,
But you can wipe my tears away,
You walk beside me, every day.
The looming years that, more or less,
Just fill me with unhappiness,
Are speckled with some happy times,
When rainbows brighten up the skies.
I know you’re never far away,
You walk beside me, every day.
There will be anniversaries
And celebrations, that you’ll miss.
Oh, Adam, how we’ll miss you, then!
Your booming laugh, your cheeky grin,
But you’ll be there, you’ll find a way,
You walk beside us, every day.
Sometimes I dream that I’m awake,
And find it’s all a big mistake,
That you are here! You’re safe and well!
With hugs and smiles and tales to tell,
And in my mind I hear you say,
“I walk beside you, every day.”
The road ahead is hard and steep,
With hills to climb and furrows, deep,
And life will never be as good
As when you, here beside us, stood,
But we believe that here you stay,
You walk beside us, every day.
At night you gently touch my cheek
And memories are mine to keep
Of my sweet son, so deeply missed.
Since that first day, your head I kissed
Inside my heart, forever stay
And walk beside me, every day.
Love you forever, Adam, from mom xxxxx
Tracy Lamont.
This poem was written/submitted by Tracy Lamont.
+5 Being your mother makes me so proud,
Watching you grow, so tall, handsome, loud!
My beautiful child who filled me with joy,
Remembering when you were my baby boy,
Your whole life ahead,
The world at your feet,
Knowing one day you would leave..
Many years filled with good times and bad,
A heart full of memories, happy and sad,
A lifetime of living, a short space of time,
A gift taken back that can never be mine,
From boy to a man in the blink of an eye,
From life into death without saying goodbye,
It only hurts when I breath…
Tracy Lamont, April 2010.
This poem was written/submitted by Tracy Lamont.
