Son, I Know You By Heart

My memory fades like an early morning fog But you my son I know by heart The impossible miles you alone have trod An uphill climb from first breaths start Fluid filled those vacant places Where only your brain should have claimed Of a viable life the prediction was traces For a life that would be horribly lame Those Doctors didn't conceive you You were mine from beginning to end I said "he's my son not a knot to undo When termination was suggested and penned I loved you then and I know you now Every obstacle you've overcome A 3.7 GPA you've made it to manhood somehow I knew to that prognosis you would never succumb Of every therapy under the sun You would never quit or complain Though your struggles were bitter and stung You took pride in the promise of your name Josiah - Healed by God - A humble man in the kingdom of men Now I see you promised to a beauty The wife I hoped for you then Soon your quest to be a teacher When you've earned your final degrees In the eyes of our future you'll be a leader The proof of what belief can achieve Your spirit is tenderness Your ways are sweet You abound in being real and generous And acquire the love of all that you meet My son with eyes filled of turquoise and brown Know this... if my memory entirely in time depart My pride in you will forbear my lips to frown For my son, I know you by heart!