I gave birth to a little boy,
I watched him grow.
He went to school one day,
As I watched him grow.
He did the things that boys do,
as I watched him grow,
Baseball, cars, trucks, bikes and football,
as I watched him grow.
High School, girls, food,
as I watched him grow
were the main fill of his teen years,
as he grew.
Now school is over,
time for the boy to grow into a man,
graduation, Marine boot camp,
I watched him grow, into a man.
Veronica Kerperien-Robinson
May 2001