----- Just Another Day -----

Today is just another day
so much like any other.
Except it isn't quite as clear
through the tears of your mother.
A month since you were lost to us
the pain of that day still burning.
Yet, today I'm trying to get on
and keep life's wheels turning.
Between the tasks I must perform
I find the time to remember,
and listen to your favourite tunes
that fill the time from December.
The music is the stuff you loved
each piece describes a part of you.
While I listen, you breathe again
but at the end, that fades too.
Though now you're gone forever,
our love for you can never die.
Our hope is that you were always happy
and that now your spirit can fly.
Goodbye, my lovely son
a part of me is always bereft.
The rest of me will carry on,
to support those of us left.

Paul Slootweg, April 2008