For
Brendan
I never really knew you
And yet I always did.
I always saw a part of you
Not matter where you hid.
You hid behind your laughter
But still I knew you had
Experienced some pain somewhere
That made you very sad.
I could see it in your smile sometimes
When you thought no one looked there.
Those little lines upon your face
Were not put there without care.
I wish that I had known you then
And maybe eased your pain
By standing there beside you
Till your world was right again.
But the fates decide for all of us
The road that we walk down
And I can't change what's been before
Or turn the time around.