Alex-amber Rock-stone
You stopped me with a start
I saw your name upon a bench
Without your beating heart
I sat and read without my breath
The memorandum card
I picked it up and held it close
And it was stoney hard
You never did get very far
In your travels left
You were almost twenty five
When your Mum bereft
She will never cease to grieve
Her loss without you son
She will always love you boy
The day your life begun
To be beleft
Be reft behind
To live without
Belove of kind
I carry this at her request
It travels in my car
I've brought it home for dinner
And tomorrow we'll journey far
I write this sober post for now
To reach and to reply somehow
Her open note sent out is found
Afar it’s felt by me profound
