Alberta Poem by Cynthia Buhain-baello

It takes a marvelous person
to influence a child so deeply
in a short span of years lived on
this earth, you've done admirably.

Perhaps you've shown him quite well
by example how it is to be good
because by his life I can surely tell
he saw how you lived as he should.

Seven years is a short time to share
what your beauty inside could convey
but your son, he recalls your loving care
and that child is a good man today.

If you were here I would thank you
for being such a great mother to give
those wonderful memories to the son who
loves me, I know you taught him how to live.