He was very flattered and touched by the poem and the footnote at the bottom, where the boy expressed his feelings for my son, and even though my son likes this boy and values his friendship, my son is not gay. He did say that he wouldn’t share it with anyone else and I agree with him, love letters are not to be passed around and shared with people they aren’t meant for. My son asked if I wanted to read the poem and I declined, because it’s personal, and it wasn’t meant for me. And gay kids are still bullied in school, in horrible, heart-wrenching ways, in ways that make me lose sleep at night. And even though it’s not really surprising, his admirer was also a boy.ĪWho wrote a poem. My eldest son came home from school to inform me that he thought one of his schoolmates liked him, because they slipped a self-authored poem to him in the hallway.
Your little baby is growing up and as a parent, you have to accept the fact that one day they will find someone and fall in love and move away from you and you will no longer get to boss them about what shirt to wear with what sweater.
It’s always sort of adorable and sad when your kid starts attracting attention from would-be suitors.
