As If He Knew

He loved his sisters and nephews and nieces his friends, his enemies and Skittles Neil Young and Hendrix and Dylan LSU, the Astros, the Saints crab boils and back-yard basketball running the roads with his buddies... Yes he loved many things and hated very few Like sitting up late and talking about good music and bad movies about prancing, primping pre-madonnas about good and evil and wrong and right about God, the Universe and human folly about the why and when and what and where with insight that defied his young years as if he knew... Oh yes he loved trying anything he never tried trying, almost desperately trying to cram a whole lifetime into twenty one years... Oh how he loved, oh how he laughed Oh how he sparkled and shined... (Yet it was that faint tint of sadness, a far off look, a tiny shake of the head as if he knew...)