Beautiful Boy

BoyBeautifulBoy
Infant who climbed over my shoulders
Boy who ran over the roof like a goat
and through trees like a squirrel
You fell in my pond and didn't touch
bottom until the other side.
BoyBeautifulBoy
Carried the world on
a ten year old back
Never stopped
Never looked back
Made of concrete and steel
BoyBeautifulBoy
You brought pretty girls
Like a proud cat
leaving a mouse on the step
Worked like a Trojan
and never kept a dollar
BoyBeautifulBoy
If I was your island
in your sea of grief
You were my gem
found shining on the beach
and now you are a ship
sinking beneath the horizon
Dressed in green
with a black beret
BoyBeautifulBoy
I hear the pipes, Dannyboy
They call you
and I want to
stop them with dirt
and beat the man
who uses you so poorly
BoyBeautifulBoy
Let me hold you
before you leave.
Climb over my shoulders
and swim my pond.
It is the strong one's
turn to weep.