Baseball Card

And there you were - blue cap and jersey, white pants bat held high above the shoulder cocked and ready to swat one out in that perfect stance of yours... Shoulder turned, name half visible (Proud you were to wear that name Proud was I you wore that name) Yes there you were - smiling that smile of yours... Cocky, confident, ready-or-not smile The kind of smile of someone who was exactly where he belonged exactly where he wanted to be in that very place, that very moment doing what he was born to do Fulfilling his destiny... (Yes that's my boy out there Yes he IS a good player isn't he?) So there you were - An all-star you were, oh yes, a star a shining, glittering star but: Stars are born to flame out, die We are all born to die it is said Seems only the best of us die young and far too soon, too soon You died too soon...