I have missed you as now you are grown,

No longer a little boy, a picture in my mind.

Where did you go, I once held your hand,

Walked you to school, played in the park.

You seem so far away from yesterday,

Not in distance as we spent part of a day.

So good to laugh and hear a sons voice,

In you rests a piece of another time and place.

I miss you from once a child, it’s been awhile,

For granted we take time, time has passed by.

“My son” I keep you always in my heart and thoughts,

I must worry just a bit, be safe each day, love from dad.

Keith Garrett