I LOVE YOU SON

I want to write a poem for you, But can't rhyme the words.
I want to write a song for you, But can't charm the birds.

I want the world to know how hard these last two years have been.
I want justice for you son, I want things to be the way they should of been.

Your last words to me ring in and out my head, now there is many things I wish I could of said. I can still see you lying there, the pain was more than I can bear.

No one understands why it was your time, 
why do I feel so bad, If heaven is like a gold mine.

I wanted to look at the stars, but couldn't see past the sun.
I wanted to look into your brown eyes and tell you I LOVE YOU SON.

Love Always, 
That beautiful name you only called me 
Mother

Jeffery this is the second year without you here with me. There is not a day that has passed by that I have not had a silent moment to think of you and a tear flow down my face. You will forever be in my heart and soul. As no one can take our memories away, that we shared, Not even death.

I LOVE YOU SON
MOTHER

Someone Misses You

Someone misses your smile
The big hugs you shared 
The warmth in your hearts 
The way you tried and cared

Someone misses your laughter 
Reassuring kindness and sincere 
The touch of your wildered hands
The way you never left, always stayed near

Someone misses the magic of
the wonderful things you accomplished
over the years. when I needed a shoulder
You were always there to catch my tears.

You've been through my triumphs
You've witnessed my defeats
I remember the good times and
pray the bad don't repeat

But someone waits for tomorrow 
another day closer to when
the wishing is over and our 
family is happy again.

Love your daughter Crissy and your son Cody

The Undefended Victim

For me, no gavel hammers,
The scales were never weighed,
My crime was that of victim,
My life was the price I paid.

And when my life was taken,
Why weren't my rights read?
And the statement "overruled",
When they pronounced me dead?

I'll never hear my rights,
Nor take the witness stand,
No attorney to defend me,
My fate was in a killer's hands.

Now the courtroom's crowded,
As the defendant pleads the case,
With just a glimmer of a tear,
Cold eyes on a straight face.

But oh, that I could take the stand,
If they could witness my last breath,
Could they live with the terror,
That I went through in death.

If they could hear my pleading cries,
And see the hatred in that face,
At last, we'd know, the scales had
"Been balanced" in this case.

If I could, I'd tell the jury
Exactly how it was,
The fear and pain I went through,
Struck down without a cause.

Did they carefully weigh it all
As they listened to the plea?
There were no emotions, showing now,
Just the hope of going free.

The final verdict now is in,
As the defendant stands in tears,
If only I had done as well...
Given ten to twenty years.

Author Unknown

~HE ONLY TOOK MY HAND~
~Author Unknown~

Last night while I was trying to sleep,
My son's voice I did hear
I opened my eyes and looked around
But he did not appear.
He said, "Mom you've got to listen,
You've got to understand
God didn't take me from you, Mom
He only took my hand.
When I called out in pain that night,
The instant that I died,
He reached down and took my hand,
And pulled me to His side.
He pulled me up and saved me
From the misery and the pain
My body was hurt so badly inside,
I could never be the same.
My search is really over now,
I've found happiness within,
All the answers to my empty dreams
And all that might have been.
I love you and miss you so,
And I'll always be nearby.
My body's gone forever,
But my spirit will never die!
And so, you must go on now,
Live one day at a time.
Just understand ~
God did not take me from you,
He only took my hand.

Jeffrey's Mom has this on the back of her van

In the Twinkling of an Eye

No one feels the pain of a mother
whose felt the loss of a child.
Words can never express the agony
her heart has suffered and compiled.

And when violence is the reason
that her child had to die...
The world she knew crashes round' her,
all in the twinkling of an eye.

It matters not what others may say...
Her heart can't release the pain.
She goes through the motions of living
while her tears just flow like rain.

Friends that once stood with her,
seemed to instantly disappear.
Her broken heart feels the loneliness
as she wonders why they aren't here.
An ache is rekindled in her heart
with every day that passes by.

She thinks of life before he left her,
all in the twinkling of an eye.
The ones who took the life of her son
will someday stand and answer why...
They chose to take her child from her,
all in the twinkling of an eye~!

Written by Kaye Des'Ormeaux
October 10, 1998

Written for Shane Hebert

used with permission by Judi Walker