Role Model

I imagined him for years growing up
I imagine him still
I’m not sure what I would have said
If you had asked me to describe him

He doesn’t yell
He doesn’t need to
Unless maybe it’s out into the air
But it doesn’t hurt
It never hurts

He would have taught me
Of this I’m sure
I would have learned much
watching him
Oh I would have watched him

I imagined him for years growing up
I imagine him still
I’m not sure what I would have said
If you had asked me to describe him

He doesn’t fix me
He doesn’t need to
He sees me for who I am
But it doesn’t hurt
It never hurts

He would have seen me
and marked my potential
Laying the path to surpass him
and then watched me surpass him

He would have shown me
The beauty in failure
He would have modeled the grace
In being wrong
Even as he was wrong

I imagined him for years growing up
I imagine him still
I’m not sure what I would have said
If you had asked me to describe him

I imagined him for years growing up
I imagine him still
He looks me squarely in the eyes these days
In my reflection
and I reflect him