Forever Seventeen
Supper’s ready! I declare
Then I catch myself, he’s not there.
Now he eats with the Lord,
Eternally fed, God kept his word.
Late at night I awake,
He’d better get home soon, for his own sake!
Then it returns, the hollow heart,
He has all eternity now that we’re apart.
My life I’d give just to hold him,
Scold him, guide his life’s whim.
But that job’s gone to Another’s Son,
Please God, guide him till I pass on.
Prom night, the big game,
Graduation, it’s all the same.
In my mind, my heart, and my dreams
He will always forever, be seventeen.
By Dan Fulton