Baby Boy

A poem by Griffin Polley Originally written 7/17/20 I’m at the edge of being an “adult”

I wonder what I would have said to myself

When I was a kid

That is if, I had anything to say at all

I would have held his hand if I could

Tell him he had so much ahead of him

But I would have been honest with my words

He was going to struggle with things, some

Big and some small

But I would still believe in him

And I wish I could’ve been with him

When one of the people he loved left

I would have sat with him, cried with him

I would have been his older brother then

I look the part now, although I didn’t for a while

But now that baby boy has become an “adult”

Would my “adult” self comfort me

With what I’m thinking about now?

When I am trying to find my place in the world?

I hope so, it’s what I would do

“Being there for someone is not just being there in spirit, it’s about holding them close and believing in them”

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