I Wonder Where That Boy Went

Dear Mother,

S-Dewan
May 14, 2023
Photo by Dakota Corbin on Unsplash

I said to her — I said,
I will become a teenager,
And may come to hate you.
But I tell you now, my love is true.

Decades have passed,
Yet I have remained a man.
That boy, is he within me still?
I oft wonder where he went.

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