What can I say about little boys

            Who’ll tug at your heart

While scattering toys

            From the moment they’re born

They are the pride of their mother

            Who swear that before them

They had loved no other quite so

            Much as this little boy

They grow so quickly and by the time they

Turn two they are driving you crazy

Just seeing what they can do

            To push this button or pull

That string

            Trying to get away with most anything

            Testing your limits and how far

They can go

Some of the first lessons they’ll

Get to know

            Many more they will learn as long

As they live

            They’ll learn to take

                        They’ll learn to give

Mom’s little boy, Dad’s little man

            Every day we wonder what God has planned

Soon they start school and you start

            To let go

You know you have to release

To allow them to grow

            School is a challenge for both

You and him

            It’s the building of life and you just get to look in

            Oh he’ll holler for help with this

Work and that

            Come throw a ball Dad, teach me to bat

            Weekends at the soccer field cheering him on

            Savoring every moment knowing soon he’ll be gone

            Grade school sillies, middle school

Growth pains

            High school comes with a brand new game

            Tougher homework, more books to carry

            Sports more intense, letters in the balance

            And then there are phone calls at all hours, day and night

            Strange moods, low talk, is he all right

            Then you find out that that his heart has been given

            To another woman not you he’s been smitten

            The love he first learned at his mother’s breast

            He finding out now that it’s another test

            He’ll have to pass

He’ll have to have manners, courtesy, style

            If he wants to stand tall

And win all those smiles

            That will tear him apart as he learns

What is real and what is just today

            Which one is forever which is just play

            Did you teach him enough did you show him the way

            Does he know that you love him

That its forever not just for today

            For this young man will leave his family and cling to his wife

But does he know that he can always come back to the mother that bore

Him and the dad who sacrificed

To give him all they hoped he would need

            To succeed.

The future we give to these that we love

            All we can do is pray we did enough

That God will be with him as he walks this

            Road and bless him with knowledge

Enough to endure

            The mysteries that the world will

Lay at his feet

            What can I say about little boys

Who tear at your heart and make lots of

            Noise

That they were given to us to show us

            The love God had when he gave His for us

            What can I say about little boys

I love mine.

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