When I was seventeen she passed away...

She had told many things long before that day...

Some of which still resounds today...

She told me how to live and how to love...

She showed me how cook and she showed me how I should look...

She told what was right and what was wrong...

She raised me right...

I just went wrong...

When I was seventeen this song played on the radio...

I knew not in what direction my life go...

I only knew that she was gone...

That I was then, all alone...

I knew that I had been dealt a severe blow...

That my life would never be the same again...

I knew that I would have to leave...

That if stayed I would find myself lost in the day to day...

At seventeen while others still played games...

I became a man...

At Seventeen©
EdwinBrown9®™
6/22/16