emoji and beloved son

 

You used to wake us in the night,

Your childish needs to fill--

A drink, a swift assurance

Your fears to still.

Then came the times we lay awake

Waiting the moment you came in,

You still seemed like the little boys

That you had been.

Now you both are gone we often wake

And ache for years so swiftly fled,

And sometimes go and stand beside

Your empty rooms.

Yet seeing belovely Tanni

With your same eyes

We sleep, aware that neither one

Would have it otherwise.