Des Trappists Road Recept then decept accept notified of thine child's time Consoled when told death's unthinkable crime disbelieving trouble conceiving why A day as beautiful as this summer sky declines Whenever you see the cross that intersects the road remember your child he was taken, taken on the Des Trappist Road I can't imagine The pain does it still remain Rushing and burning through your veins Take a rose walk with sour dry tears under dry eyes your knees too weak as the grave grows closer to your child's grave that grows closer Years have passed did their face fade from your memories youth torn from life and from family, does this loss weaken faith in the heaven that never saved Des Trappist Road to the soil below