A one parent boy left with his Mum
By a Dad who never wanted to go
With much financial upheaval
Where the standard answer was no!

Later he knew that against the odds
She had nurtured him with warm feelings
Passed on honesty and unease in equal parts
As war bombs had left more than cracked ceilings.

Twenty years on and the world has changed
When enthusiasm means more than a degree
With seven day working while still in his teens
He started his own firm and was boss free.

Life intrudes and the company must go
But he has talent others thought worth buying
Now shaking important hands at foreign meets
He becomes used to first class flying.

New York was where he always felt close
To his Mother from yester year
To look upwards at the churches to wealth
And know he had earned his right to be here.

To be in this money Mecca
And recall from where he had come
He knew it was only made happen
By the love he had had from his Mum.