tom was born in 1942 with eyes of blue and the doctors said that his birth was far too fast his heart stopped twice but yet he survived as he took his first breath his mother took her last and his father knew that he wasn t to blame but he never quite looked at tom the same after that and he rarely spoke about her but when he did he said your mother used to say this when the skies are looking bad my dear and your heart s lost all its hope after dawn there will be sunshine and all the dust will go the skies will clear my darling i ll wake up with the one i love the most and in the morning i ll make you up some tea and toast well they met through a friend who introduced them and the first thing tom said was would you like to dance they moved with each other and when the music got slower he said don t let go of my hand he said it s only polite if i ask you tonight would it be alright if i could walk you home that night he told her of his birth and he said when it hurt he thought about what his mother said about tea and toast well two quick years went by they were side by side and without a plan they conceived a little child he said woman i love you and this you know but i only yearn enough for our food and clothes but i love you and this baby until the day that i die she said we ll take care of this little life and we ll fall in love with her baby blue eyes and we ll be alright from some advice that i know she said i never got to meet her but if i did i m sure your mother would have said this  well he took those words and he made them proud he worked day after day and hour after hour so that they could buy a little house just on the outside of town their little girl grew up and so did they they said that they loved each other everyday and forty years later that brings us to now and as they re walking down the street her grip loosens on his hand he puts his arm around her side as she falls to the ground he hears her breathing and that s the only sound her body on the floor attracts a worried crowd tears rolls off his face as he says don t let go now and he s sitting by her bed in the hospital ward then their daughter walks in with a family of her own she says dad i don t know if she can hear you now but there s one thing mum would want you to know 1