For JR, my friend, my brother, and my son.
A Child In Need
Throughout the years I will decry
Powers charged with nurturing
A helpless little boy
A child lost in this cold, hard world
Wanting help, receiving none
From parents who neglect
Contempt, ridicule, disrespect
Piled high on his small shoulders
Too small for this burden.
He lives in his isolation
Crying in the midnight black
When weakness does not show
Heart-felt love, friendship, all foreign
Deprived of all children’s needs
He withers in his cave
Desperately he reaches out
Beyond his white-washed prison
Looking for what he lacks
Screaming for love, but to deaf ears
Not wanting to hear his cries
Ignoring his pleading
With nothing left, he turns away
Tired of facing the world
He throws his life away
After all is complete he sleeps
Buried without living life
A tragic loss of a friend.
Mourning tears never cease to fall
Down my cheeks or in my heart
A part of me dies too
I’ll never hear him laugh again
I will never see him smile
I will never see him again.