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            | Forgotten 
 Children forget so much.
 He won't remember our days together,
 just the two of us.
 And who will
 as the days pass,
 and my own memories fade?
 
 Those times, those precious perfections of little moments.
 Stolen away.
 
 "No, son, we'll eat lunch,
 then
 have ice-cream."
 
 I think of them now, as many as I can.
 How many of you have
 already slipped away?
 
 But the days pass and there will be new moments,
 
 to forget.
 
 So I treasure each one;
 and holding it close, I breathe it in,
 like a dyeing breath...
 
 And think of a distant time
 long from now,
 and an old man lying still.
 
 When his last breath leaves,
 and those beautiful, dark eyes
 close their last,
 will his thoughts return to me?
 
 and remember
 
 a man and a little boy
 walking hand-in-hand
 on that sidewalk so long ago?
 Will he remember their joy?
 
 Frozen forever in time,
 forgotten,
 and lost for all eternity.
 
 
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 | My teacher, my
friend 
 Little demon
 
 From heaven
 
 Child
of my heart
 
 Source of life yet
painful reminder
 
 of
my weakness
 
 to
see the truth
 
 that
I am little more than child
 
 myself
 
 so
I learn from your every
 act,
so
 
 we
grow up together
 
 my
son
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                  | READY, SET,...
                                              
 
                    
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                  | This painting
is a
physical and spiritual portrait of the artist's son,
 Tristan, and
symbolizes the spirit of childhood.
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