This is a poem I wrote for Chad just a few months before he died. He called me one day and ask if I’d write him a poem. I got off the phone and wrote down these words as they came to me.
CHADDIEBOY
A rush of love
Fills my heart
Each time I think of you
Just the name
ChaddieBoy
Brings music to my ears
No matter the years
That slip away
Some things never change
I still see
The sweet young boy
With
a
face
of
gold
You’d fill your pockets
With bugs and rocks
And
Some
Times
Yucky
Things
You’d walk in proudly
To show your mom
Exactly what you’d found
Digging deep
You’d pull out beetles, bees
And
Wood ticks too
My heart still warms
When I see that face
Looking
For
Only
Love
By Chad’s mom, me…