[center][h3]"About a Boy"[/h3]
[sup]Written March 17th, 2012.[/sup]
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This was written about my first love, Mathew. He lost his parents in a house fire when he was 5 years old, and eventually lost his older brother overseas. We were a long distance couple, and had always imagined what it had been like if we had met sooner. As children. So, we played it out. We acted as if we had known each other that long, and I think that's why we lasted so long. Why we tried so hard to keep it going. We, ourselves, were convinced.
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There was once a little boy
who lived with his parents
he had a brother and a sister
and they lived together happily.

There was once a little boy
who lost everything he had
his parents were taken away
he was left scarred for life.

There was once this growing boy
who was shipped off to a new family
he was a little troublemaker
and no one wanted to take him.

There was once an adolescent boy
who fought everyone in his way
everyone was the enemy to him
he chose his select few friends.

That same adolescent young boy
met this girl at a big house party
they were both still growing up
but were experiencing new feelings.

The young boy lost so much more
along the way all he could do at all
was hold in the tears and fight it out
there was nothing else he knew to do.

The boy couldn't understand some things
that were happening to him at the time
through understanding these things though
came a huge amount of responsibility.

That boy had to grow up so fast
and that girl wanted to be apart of
she also had to learn to share her boy
but she'd make it through just for him.

That boy was growing up into a man
sometimes workin' hard or hardly workin'
he made due with what he had on hand
remembering the things he was taught.

That young man is still here to this day
growing older as the days pass him by
he hasn't yet made the fatal mistake
of letting his dreams pass without a try.

That one girl is still there by his side
praying to whatever higher being
that there is out in our big universe
that they'll stop time or slow it down.

That girl keeps on hoping and dreaming
that she can make their moments last
if not then she just wants some way
to make her existence about a boy.
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