The u-turn of uninterrupted talk Falls short before the midnight hour And through the remembrances The hushed Echoing of a printed face smiles Among the old and new. But only you know he has gone, For your heart is broken And thrown about the room Where your old man's chair sits alone.... Where you once shared A laugh and a joke, A tear and a smoke, A kiss and a hug, A poem and a mug Of tea, (With a wee dram of Glenmorangie) On a cold night By the firelight, Reading Frost - 'The Grindstone' In candlelight, Listening to Django Reinhardt's 'Crazy Rhythm' On the radio As it beats out a frenetic system Of notes that runs and parts Into segments of your mind. Now you are on your own, You sit back to find What you have lost....