"Hold on then my son and never let go"

For Stevie's Birthday 16 August MMX "Me dearest darlin' boy" where would I start If I were to speak the love in my heart For you? But then again you understand That when all is lost some things remain and As some things become the way they must be Some things become too important to say Understanding connected hand to hand As though we were links in a living chain From soul to soul through love by circumstance We turn but turning do not turn away Through spacetime in shared synchronicity And both of us are Steven Curtis Lance Remembering Frank's Hobby Shop and all The adventures we shared before the fall And you with your blue book of poetry Sad old songs with you at the piano Saying too important things anyway And saying them seeing we understand Those moments like these when both of us know Seeing me in you seeing you in me Seeing from a look in each other's eyes That we are not alone before the rise Of what was and now is rising again Of what is and how what will be will be In the Santa Ana wind at midnight Is how I first saw the diamonds shine On the blue velvet and knew they were mine Holding the sky by the string of a kite And you hold the sky by the string now too Hold on then my son and never let go The specificity begins again We turn but to return another day I cannot imagine being my son Or my doing as well as you have done Without even mentioning how you do Or how you will do and how about you? I want you to know I am proud of you That you are the meaning of life to me Because of you I want to be and stay Here being doing and seeing you grow If only to remind you I love you And if only to say Happy Birthday +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX