A Mothers Eyes - Ode to Bill Carter

Like I am sure a lot of you good people of Perth I have been closely following the dreadful circumstances and fatal consequences of young (25 years) Bill Carter’s choices as if I knew the young man, (which I didn’t).

However, as the father of a remote mine worker FIFO son who has just survived what was effectively a mental breakdown and loss of relationship, home, savings, broke and basically couch surfing for two years, I felt a close personal affinity for Bill’s parents. Mainly with Bill’s mother as she clearly and inevitably publicly struggled with what I am sure to her was the increasingly unbelievable certainty that there was no happy ending to her nightmare. Sadly, and cruelly, this was proven to be horribly true as Bill’s body has now been found.

So, there I was last week, a day or so after the police dealt with the finding of young Bill. Working a nightshift and deep in thought about the young life lost in circumstances that so easily might have happened to me. Wondering how I might have dealt with that and feeling incredibly emotional.

Looking at that last photo of Bill and his Mum on the day she dropped him at the airport I saw that the two of them have the same eyes. A need to express myself from the sadness of the situation arose in me and a poem flowed from the stream of consciousness. I ask your permission to share my short poem with you via the wonderful Langtrees blog pages.

“Ode to Bill Taylor - Your Mother's Eyes”

You have your mother’s eyes Bill
Soulful
You have your mother’s love mate
Hopeless

FFS Why mate! Why...?

Never knew you Bill…
Wish I had
You remind me of my precious FIFO Son
He too struggled...like you
But he came out back to the light - stronger …

If only your mother had had that chance Bill…
Hopeless...Helpless

Author: Magnum
Father of a FIFO Man
For: Langtrees.com

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