To my brother Tom

Sitting in a gift shop of a hospital
Just waiting to be bought
He waits with no hope of ever being loved
Till a man buys him while he’s still clean and young

He was loved by an infant who was born very sick
Just like him they were worried for his future
But he lasted a long time along with the boy
At all appointments, scans and operations

The toy is still happy now 16 years old but also very sad
Because he out lived the boy who died at eleven