Lost No More

i lost my lost boy today

did you know that the last time he saw his parents he was 10 years old?

did you know that he had to leave or he would be forced to be part of an army that would kill and rape innocent people?

did you know that he walked 1000 miles in 3 months to maintain his integrity?

did you know that he had to drink his own urine to stay alive?

did you know he spent 10 years in a refugee camp raised by nuns?

did you know they taught him english there?

did you know they taught him about God's love there?

did you know in 2001 he and 3,000 other lost boys from the sudan were allowed into the united states?

did you know he was placed in chelsea, ma for the past 10 years?

did you know that he was a manager of housekeeping at a hotel?

did you know that he loved to work?

did you know that when he worked, his shift never had any complaints?

did you know that one day he started having back pain and took the day off from work and never went back?

did you know he loved to play basketball?

did you know he never drank alcohol?

did you know he worked hard to send money to his parents in africa?

did you know that he got spinal cancer? that it paralyzed him from the waste down?

did you know he had to live in a nursing home at 31 years old and never complained?

did you know that he loved the residence at the nursing home?

did you know that he loved the celtics, bruins, red sox and patriots?

did you know that he recently attended a patriots game in his poor condition?

did you know he studied hard to take his citizenship test?

did you know that he past his citizenship test despite losing his eyes sight and the ability to write well?

did you know that i never heard him complain?

did you know that he never lost faith in God?

did you know that he thought he would somehow be healed?

did you know that i loved him?

did you know that he became my friend?

did you know that he taught and inspired me?

did you know that it killed me inside to watch him slowly decline?

did you know that he just wanted me to hold his hand and sing to him the last weeks of his life?

did you know the last time i saw him i sang i believe in Christ to him?

did you know that he died today?

did you know that my heart is broken?

did you know that he is lost no more?  

did you know he walked home to God?