Sammy - Jamie's Joy

I saw a girl today
Now a woman
Where you should be a man

She didn’t recognize me, nor I her, except she was with her parents who have aged but haven’t changed.

Little kids change into adults that no longer look as they once were, that assumes of course that they are allowed to live into adulthood.

Sammy is grown now, with a boyfriend by her side, Cameron is his name, but it might have been you If only you’d been given that chance to live into adulthood.

She looks so different now, a place where you should be, looking so different from when I last saw you.
Would I recognize you now if you appeared a man before me?

But I should know you as a man and I should have recognized her because you should have grown up together, you knew each other once when you were 5 and she was 3. I wonder if she ever wonders what you would look like now.

From a moment I saw her from afar, I am reminded there has been so much to miss since I last saw you, not just the child you were but the man you would be today. A boy in place where a person might say “I didn’t even recognize you, you’ve grown into a man since I last saw you, but I knew you when you were a little boy”. A place where you will always stay since you weren’t given that chance to live into adulthood.