"Shit" Happens

• "It's a boy!"
• He is happy and loving and innocent.
• He likes cowboys, six shooters and horses.
• He is tall and skinny now, loves basketball and football.
• He sees JFK killed on tv at sixteen.
• He does 'something for his country'. Joins the Marines.
• He goes to war, kills people, sees his friends die, hates God.
• He is innocent no more.
• He turns the page. Has two beautiful daughters.
• He learns about the heartache of divorce. His past returns from out of the darkness to haunt him.
• He finds relief in the bottom of a bottle.

          He finds relief from the bottle.

• He is gifted with three wonderful grandsons.
• He begins to believe again, but in his own way.
• He is gifted with someone special.
• He loves cowboys, six shooters and horses.
• He's an old 'boy' now!
•   SXW