A Poem in Memory of Mike Scott

We don’t know how it happened only that it broke our heart

The sudden way you left us tore our lives apart

Our happy family of four became a broken three

The shock and pain too deep was difficult to see

It was so hard to cope we pushed each other away

The scars that left behind are still with us today

We tried to rack our brains, was there something we should have seen

And as the years went by we thought how life should have been

We struggled on with living in the best way that we could

And learned to laugh and smile again, though we never thought we would

To lose a child in any way is dreadful and unfair

But for no apparent reason, it’s the hardest thing to bear

Though your life was short it was filled with laughter and some tears

We were lucky to have you with us for almost eighteen years

The lovely memories we have of you will never fade away

We still love and miss you Mike, every single day

Marje Scott