Revelations of a Brain Plagued with a Quirk

The poems, short stories, musings and ramblings of J. Scott Smith

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The Eyes of My Son

J. Scott Smith

It's nothing I've done,
no more that I can,
look into the eyes of my son;
I see that I'm done,
it's not my boy but a man,
looking through the eyes of my son.

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• A Baby Named Tyler
• A Chance I'll Take
• A Dream I Dreamed
• Again and Alone
• Alone
• Antithesis
• Awake
• Be Mindful of Nothing
• Beyond My Grasp
• Beyond the Veil
• Black As
• Blue, Blue Eyes
• Can't Get You Off My Mind
• Damned Scene from Hell
• Davis Jones
• Delusion's Jaws
• Don't
• Eulogy for One
• Five and Fifty
• For Man...Of Man
• For Mother
• Gone with the Wind
• Hello, Is This Thing On?
• How Does This Look?
• How Many?
• I Bought for My Love
• I Fear
• I Realize
• I Saw You Again
• I Stand
• I Start Over
• I Wonder
• In a Love not yet Started
• In the In Between
• In Younger Days
• Is it code in here, or is it just me?
• Lament for a Line
• Lester
• Lie Down, My Lady
• Logic Told Me
• Love Life
• Man's Greatest Trial
• Midnight Moon
• my forest
• My Love, Do You?
• my Self lies there covered
• Ode to a Doll
• One Decade
• Opening thoughts
• Ordinary
• Pick It Back Up Again
• quiet
• Remains the Day
• Retraction
• Second Star (to the Right)
• She
• Silent As Darkest Night
• Spanish One
• Stories of Pain
• Telephone Booth
• The Bird
• The Coat
• The Earth & Air & Boundless Sea
• The Eyes of My Son
• The Interloper
• The Jester's Partner and Folly's Guest
• The Laughing, Laughing
• The Meaning of Passion and Love
• The Sayings of They
• The Season of Youth
• The Sirens of Shadows Dark
• The Trees
• This Love, You and Me
• through a door
• Til the Next Change in the Weather
• To Carla
• To My First
• To Read from Paper
• Too Far
• Triprogression
• Twice Burned, Twice Died
• Vending Machine
• We Are Stuck Apart
• Welcome to Earth
• What Next?
• When At Long Last
• When You Say I Will
• Who Knows? Not I!
• With Your Last Look
• Worlds Wrapped 'Round
• Wrong Division