FOR ROBERTS MUM XXX

Next to you

You cannot see or touch me
But I'm standing next to you.
Your tears will only hurt me,
Your sadness makes me blue.
Be brave and show a smiling face
Let not your grief show through.
I love you from a different place,
Yet I'm standing next to you.

Carol McPhun (Family Friend)
2 weeks ago

Thinking of you.XXX

Next to you

You cannot see or touch me
But I'm standing next to you.
Your tears will only hurt me,
Your sadness makes me blue.
Be brave and show a smiling face
Let not your grief show through.
I love you from a different place,
Yet I'm standing next to you.

Tricia Donaldson Kierans Mum (GTS Friend)
4 weeks ago

Thought of you when i read this R.I.P XXX

In The Arms of Angels
In the arms of the angels
Is where you rest today
In the arms of the angels
That keep you safe in everyway

In the arms of the angels
Up in heaven you will roam
In the arms of angels
Until your mother does come home

In the arms of angels
With their warmth and heavenly charm
In the arms of angels
Keeping us all safe from harm

In the arms of angels
You will wait at heavens door
In the arms of angels
We will be together forever more

In the arms of angels
Together we will lay
In the arms of angels
Forever we will stay

In the arms of angels
In heaven up above
In the arms of angels
We will share eternal love...

Carol McPhun (Family Friend)
May 19, 2009

13th april 1969

40years ago today at 11-45am in colston wellpark church you were christened robert alexander bratton I remember it as if it was yesterday ..i wish it was yesterday ..but its not its today 40years later 2009 and your not here its not right you should be here ..all the lost boys should be here, robert.. craig ..tony.. jim..kierian....robert david....jason..william ..nick..lennie..derek...william ..steven ..alec.. jack..stephen ...robert.. john...alec..the list goes on and on and not one of these lost sons will ever be forgotten.. remembered forever there all FOREVER YOUNG..from mum x

Alison Bratton (Mother)
May 3, 2009

next week

Hi Robert just to let u know that my laptop is going today to get fixed im hopeing its just for a few days a week at the most, so i wont be able to come on and light ur candles for u, im gonny miss that, but hopefully it wont be too long, speak soon Robert, lov u so much.xxx.

Al Bratton (Sister)
April 1, 2009

mother,s day

Happy mother,s day Alison. xxxx

XXXXXXX

What a Grieving Mother Really Thinks
Written by Kelly Cummings
Hello, Old Friend,
Oh, yes, you know
I lost my child a while ago.
No, no please
Don’t look away
And change the subject
It’s ok.
You see, at first I couldn’t feel,
It took so long, but now it’s real.
I hurt so much inside you see
I need to talk,
Come sit with me?
You see, I was numb for so very long,
And people said, “My, she is so strong.”
They did not know I couldn’t feel,
My broken heart made all unreal.
But then one day, as I awoke
I clutched my chest, began to choke,
Such a scream, such a wail,
Broke from me…
My child! My child!
The horror of reality.
But everyone has moved on, you see,
everyone except for me.
Now, when I need friends most of all,
Between us there now stands a wall.
My pain is more than they can bear,
When I mention my child,
I see their blank stare.
“But I thought you were over it,”
Their eyes seem to say,
No, no, I can’t listen to this, not today.
So I smile and pretend, and say, “Oh, I’m ok”.
But inside I am crying, as I turn away.
And so my old friend, I shall paint on a smile,
As I have from the start,
You never knowing all the while,
All I’ve just said to you in my heart.

Patricia McShane (Family Friend)
March 7, 2009

Robert

Hi Robert just wishing you well my friend, my dad is on this web site so I was passing through x god bless my friend best wishes Nikkola ( john Brewers daughter ) xx

your birthday..40.today

40 years ago at 6.20am in stobhill hospital you were born ...beautiful boy, blonde hair ,blue eyes and for the first 8 hours of your life there was just me and you ,I was 17 years old and you were mine my boy ..
And today you are forty ..you are still my boy and right now we are alone again although i cannot see you i know you are here somwhere i know you are I want so much for you to be here .. Robert i will never think of you as 40 i will always think of you as 36 the age you were when you died ..that awful awful day ...you should be here i wish you were here
We've bought you a brick at Ibrox i know you'll like that and we'v got 40 ballons to leave on your bench ..and then when its dark we'll send your lanterns up up and away higher and higher till they reach wherever you are ..ROBERT BRATTON 1969-2005..FOREVER YOUNG....luv from your Mammy.x.x.

Alison Bratton (Mother)
February 23, 2009

40 today

Hi Robert, well today u would be 40,sad im leaving this message on this, u should be here to celebrate it in whatever way u would have.....it dont feel right to say happy birthday but im thinking about u and wishing so much that u where here. Luv u Robert and ill always love u, i miss u so so much.Watch out for ur Lanterns.....xxxx

Al Bratton (Sister)
February 23, 2009