Member Poem

He found it in a box of things of days gone by

Took it out and loved it though it was old and missing an eye

He took it to his bedroom and tucked it into bed

He gave it his favorite pillow to rest its weary head

When I tucked him and saw my oldest childhood friend

I was torn inside of memories of days that had to end

I took it from its resting place and hugged it to my heart

Tattered and ragged I tried my best to fix its broken parts

A new eye and some sutures, fixing all its wounds of old

I tucked it back inside the sheets so it wouldn't feel the cold

When he awakened in the morn, he came running in to me

Holding up the teddy bear who was fixed miraculously

I told him that it was my very best buddy when I was a child

And asked if I could hold it once, for just a little while

I told him how his eye was lost thanks to a neighbors dog

And how I dragged him through the woods chasing hopping frogs

And then he said how he was fixed all like magic overnight

And I said that's because he found a friend to hold him tight

So now he has my bestest bud from seeming eons past

And he was healed in loving arms of a new friend meant to last