We Have A Stone

March 30, 2016

When my boy went off to war

hand in hand we watched the sun go down.

his mother cried. I stood in the door.

Two empty hearts with nor smile or frown,

Hands that could fix all things

trembling now, dreams of tomorrow tossed.

Mother’s kitchen and dinners fit for kings,

gone dark and lonely – future lost.

Where once we had our life’s joy

now just silent screams and murmured moan

“My boy they took my boy”,

now we have a stone.

We have a stone

among the trees, upon our knees

filled with worn out dreams

and sorrow-soaked memories

of good times and boyhood schemes.

We have a stone,

upon a grassy hill

a cold reminder of life’s due

we visit often and always will;

and what we get when all is through?

We have a stone

so I don’t go to fancy places

with names carved on shiny rock

and stand among the sullen faces

and listen to them talk.

We have a stone

and when the horror of it all wears thin

above the sounds of woe I hear

between the pride and pity, somewhere within

laughing -- laughing loud and clear.

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