Poem for Kyle from Niko and Mamma

Your eyes are green as the grass.

Your friends love you as much as I do.

I’m going to miss the sound of your alarm clock

Buzzing each morning as you sleep through it.

Your voice with your daily greeting
“how’s it going?” and your smile

Turned our days.

I wish I could have known you longer

So that we could have played baseball together,

Gone out to breakfast more,

And played tricks on our parents.

Planting a garden together and watching the caterpillars

Turn to butterflies,

We passed the days of summer

Your body growing from a wispy thing-of-a-boy

Into a strong young man.

Where did that time go?

I wish we got to know each other better:

That we could have played more games

And eaten dinner together and

you could watch me grow up.

I wish we got to know each other better.

That we could have talked about writing,

That I could have known you as a man

And watched you grow up.

Kyle, we’re so lucky we have such good parents.

Don’t worry, I’ll make sure they

Don’t get into trouble.

We love you  very much Kyle and we miss you.