GRANDPA IS MY BESTIE

Is emblazoned across this shirt

Which you used to own.

It looks so tiny in my hands!

A visual manifestation

Of how incredibly tall you have grown

In such a very short time!

It makes me sad, yet happy,

To see it lying there.

A token of the special bond

We shared.

 

And share still.

Time has moved on, Will,

Your shirts are double that size.

No. Treble!

Your world has expanded

Exponentially

And so, it must.

Now you correct my

Vocabulary and call me

“Clever lad!”

(Impudent child!)

 

But we can both remember

 That special time,

When you were so small that you

Nestled into the crook of my elbow,

As I marched you off to sleep.

(I couldn’t do that now!)

When grandad was the bestie

With whom young shared your games

And who shared his biscuits with you!

 

When there was always a new song

To be learnt and to be sung!

 

William and his bestie,

 

Forever young!