Our Son, Our Tears, Our Tomorrow

Born from my soul new to this earth This marvel of life that we call birth Dedication endurance, gestation of time To hold him so close our son so fine Tears from my eyes, fulfilment of joy Proud parents we are of our little boy We look to tomorrow to live our lives As we remember his dad whom fate has deprived He was a soldier, just nineteen years old Too early to leave us for his young life to fold At Southampton Docks, where I waved him farewell My tears were so different our future looked swell Frequent letters arrived declaring our love To the birth of our son a gift from above Then came the day your whole world falls apart A knock at the door, where do they start They sit you down, knowing the words you will hear My eyes start to swell, with a different tear They tell of my husband, father to our son Heroic in war, lost to the enemy gun They leave, the door closes, I'm in momentary empty My life not that long ago was blissful of plenty We said our farewells my son and I With a lifetime of tears I will internally cry