Beginnings and Ends – Version 2: For Matthew

I remember you in your childhood

Sounds of your playing in our neighborhood

I heard your laugh and I wish you could

Have known about the future and how it’s no good

I thought about the moment that we said goodbye

Told you that I loved you and it made me cry

I prayed about redemption and I wished for time

Said they left without you and I wonder why

But we’ll be alright

And the pain will only last for the night

I remember you in my memories

Standing there together, for a moment we

Learned about forgiveness, how you’d be alright

 I think about your worries, how I made them mine

I’ve thought about beginnings and I’ve thought about ends

I called you my brother and I called you friend

And I prayed for the brokenness that I thought you’d mend

I learned about life and how it reached its end

I think about heaven and I see you there

Told me that you’re perfect and without care

I know about the beauty of a holy prayer

So I’ll pray about the moment when I see you there

But we’ll be alright

And the pain will only last for the night