It Was About You Poem by James McLain

It was about you, you and no one else,
Without the wind there are no moving leaves.
No one else only you, deep in the ground
The roots of one tree without all the limbs and even
Still yet, high in the air is the crown.

but you can and only you will know where you've
Been or what you have felt or still even yet,
What's there in your heart because if you tell again
You will be where you were.

In spite of all you have seen and even now, goes on
Around you,
You will not tell because if you do again without will
And your young age, the pain you endured the long lonely night's
Will come once again but child know you were right.

It was about you that I fought the long fight, despite what you thought
I was always there,
The voice that you heard when you were there it was mine.
My advice at your young age may not feel right, the words that you
Hear those words that you heard,
But in the coming years I think you will know, the words that I spoke
We're only for you.

Because at your age even younger still it was me in your place,
At this, our tender young age, because to another you weren't important.
Ten year's have now passed and even now, it was done for you.