THE LITTLE BOY

THE LITTLE BOY
(c)2003 Stephanie Durand

There is a little boy
who cries himself to sleep at night
He tries so hard
to be the little man
his father wants him to be

But without fail
The child comes rushing out of him

And his father doesn't understand
That he is not yet a man
And sometimes he fights
His will is strong

But he still...cries himself to sleep
at night,
Because his father doesn't understand how hard
he tries
To fight the little child that comes out sometimes

He is just a little boy
who needs hugs and loving words from his father,
who needs his father to understand....that he is only a little boy
many years away from being that strong man
his father yearns and wants for him to be
For his father's heart to always realize
that he is only three
and that his little hand needs to be held
and those tears need to comforted and wiped away
for one day that little boy will be no more
and his daddy will look back and yearn for that far away day
When his little boy was only three
When the simple things like baseballs, frogs, and little trucks
made his little heart so happy and free