~ A Boy to Be Seen!~
Lost But Not Forgotten! 'If only I could Remember...'
~A Boy to be Seen!~
A Boy to be seen
Lost but not forgotten,
Left behind
In 1992,
Where he's only 12 yrs old
To me!
A Ray of Hope within
To believe in his future,
When I looked to see
His will be a Fine Destiny?
A boy whose silence and good behaviour,
Left him often, overlooked by the rest of the family!
But with you I have 1 fond memory
There was that time I loved to watch,
To watch you with your brother
Quietly loving one another,
You'd sit there at the table
Playing those role playing games together,
And when you thought nobody was looking
You would pull out the paper,
And start to draw little cartoons
The one's always dancing around in your head,
Because that's what the happiness inside of you
Brought out, when the 2 of you were together,
Your beautiful boy
That loved to play,
Who lived inside
While I just quietly watched
From a different part of the room.
As for him the other younger little star eyed wonder,
I remember a few trips
Where I got to be alone with him to,
Took him to the park a few times
And to that candy store nearby.
The conversations I had with him were so nice,
He was such a lovely boy
Inside and out!
My heart couldn't help but love
What was there,
How can you not care for someone
Who is so easy to Love?
I have often thought of him through the years
And wished the best for him inside,
And hoped one day that he would get an education?
To give himself a better life
In the World Outside, find a nice young girl
And one day settle down and share,
All the beauty of the boy he was in there.
Oh to one day have a family of his own
To know first hand, where not to go wrong,
To stand strong in doing what is right...
That's all I tried to tell him
That's all I knew to say,
Don't give up on life
Don't throw Your Love away!
Such a sensitive boy
Coming from such a loud,
Crazy home and family...
That is something miraculous
In itself,
Hold on tight to that, never let it go
For you'll one day be blessed,
For holding on to what you know.
I just knew he was the one that had what it would take
To win out better then all of us, in this race known as life,
He was quiet and smart,
He tried so hard to always play his cards so right...
But still he was overlooked and ignored to often
How can it be,
To be so perfect and yet lost to others
Almost forgotten?
I understood you then as his brother
And I am glad you let me see,
So that I could one day write these words
With fond memory for us all,
If only I could give them to you both?
Lost but never forgotten
A Boy to be Seen,
I don't know where you are
And that will always be my regret,
Time I can never make up for
And how much more there would be to this story,
If I had only had the chance
Little One,
To watch and get to know you
With more time to share, in helping to shape your life!
But my life was a mess
So what could I do,
I was only 17 then too.
But I had faith, in that good boy
So true,
I knew it just had to turn out o.k.
So I did what I thought was best,
You didn't need to see my life
The path I was on...
I wanted only for the memories of our visits
To live on, Strong!
So I only hope I was around long enough
To stain in 'his' mind
To be good,
From the lessons I tried to share?
Turn out to be better than your brother and me...
Be better than EVERYBODY!
So there wasn't much more
I thought I could say,
But after some time had past
And I found these words and thoughts,
I knew I could have shared more
Of who 'I' was inside...
Because that trust
A Boy to be seen,
Would not have betrayed.
He was just that good inside
I could have shared my talent,
My words, my songs, my stories
Maybe he would have liked,
What I had going on?
But no amount of time
Can change or undo what's past,
So here I sit
And write these words for you
About the Love,
That I would have Loved
To continue to share,
And the beautiful memories
Of the good times we did share.
Thanks for that
Those private walks
And our good talks,
Thanks for keeping my secrets too
Telling me just how much,
That though you were still so young
And just starting out,
Some things just didn't need to be shared.
Such a good boy
What more can I say,
I just know wherever you are
And whatever you're doing,
That you're the one person
In that whole family,
Who's turned OKAY...
So with my fondest memories
And my warmest Love,
From somebody who cared
In a moment of time, in your life
Back when you were just a boy,
That I was happy to be lucky enough
To be there and know you right then...
I would have loved to watch you grow
And be that older sister type friend,
But I'm afraid
That these words are just going to have to do,
As I sit and remember you.
A Boy to be seen
Lost but not forgotten,
Left behind
In 1992,
Where he's only 12 yrs old
To me!
If Only I could...
REMEMBER HIS NAME?
Written by,
Jennifer Cooley!
About the Creator
Jennifer Cooley
I've been writing as long as I could hold a crayon! Remember writing my first story like it was yesterday at 5. I remember the details of the day, location, time, excitement & where the story was preserved for all time! Lots Born From That!
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Comments (2)
This was such a wonderful
How lovely, to witness someone and to not let that go, all those decades on, to still hold that goodness you saw.