Blue For A Boy

Blue For A Boy

A tip, this drawer aside of the bed,

chargers, keyrings, European adapters,

watches frozen in time, batteries now dead,

dog-eared books of unfinished chapters

A find, with compliments of Cow & Gate,

a treasure you had kept safe all those years;

blue for a boy, six pounds six, the birthdate,

my eyes sting, slowly turning to tears

My body feels now, it is starting to fray,

like the ribbon which once circled my wrist;

joined by a cord, the price we must all pay,

heartache and pain, oh how you are missed

This card, a story, love and loss to tell,

the years become decades, three slipping by;

loving foundations taught how to live well

and above all showed me how to die