https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzpuSbC_KRE
A song for my little son.
Not Forgotten
I know you won’t remember today
I know you won’t remember me saying, that I love you, but I do.
I know you won’t remember these trees
I know you won’t remember my need
To laugh at your laughter
To smile when you smile at me
But I hope they are part of you
Tiny part in the making of you
The framework of the way
You’ll live hundreds of days like today
So much of him that I can’t recall
So much is gone now once and for all
For all I try to remember, and I do
Though he’s gone in every way, he’s
The absence present in every day
I laugh it’s our laughter
I smile because he smiled at me
And I know he’s part of me
Major part of the making of me
This weakness my strength
This loss my richness
Every day
Today will be in the mainframe of your brain
Somewhere in your neural pathways
Pulses of laughter
Electric flashes of trees
Formed of days together like these
It’s you now that stands to gain
From all I’ve lost, hear it when I say, I love you, and I do.
I know you won’t remember when you’re grown
These dandelions I taught you to blow
We laugh as they go
But I hope they are part of you
Tiny part of the blow by blow of you
The framework of the way
You’ll live hundreds of days like today
Pulses of laughter
Electric flashes of trees
Formed of days together like these
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