Crushed Poem by Jay AndersonTaylor

I did admire you and did stare at you with a

child like glaze in my eyes... You where

everything I did admire and you where what I

would like to be like someday... You where my

light sky in dark of the night sky and I was like a twinkling star

within your soft fluffiness of your sky. Oh, how I did

admire every breath you did take... No one could

have ever made me see you in another light. How

dare anyone ever say anything bad about the man I did call daddy with

pride? Now

here I stand a man at age eighteen and must now

realize... Daddy never came home from that

late night card game twelve years ago... and all the stories my Momma

ever told me about you? They where all just a lie,

all to keep a tiny little boy from asking a manly

question... Momma, were is my daddy and why

did he leave us with this lie.

Jay Andrew Anderson-Taylor

Copyright ©2008 Jay Andrew Anderson-Taylor