'MY FRIEND 'ELVIS'

 
PRECIOUS MEMORIES HOW THEY LINGER.
GOD SENT THIS WORLD A BABY BOY
WHO WAS BORN INTO POVERTY
AND AS A BOY HE WONDERED
WHAT WOULD BE HIS DESTINY ?
HIS LIFE WOULD BE BUSY AND THINGS HAPPENED
THAT EVEN HE COULDN'T BELIEVE.
HE HAD SO MUCH TO GIVE AND YET VERY LITTLE TO
RECEIVE
HE STARTED OUT WITH  A SONG AND A WIGGLE.
SOME PEOPLE COULDN'T UNDERSTAND
BUT YOU AND I NOW KNOW IT WAS ALL IN GOD'S PLAN.
 
NO SOONER HAD HE STARTED WHEN HE LOST HIS MOST
PRECIOUS PRIZE.
TRAGEDY STRUCK THIS YOUNG MAN HIS MOTHER DIED.
BY THIS TIME HE HAD THE COLONEL, WHO  WAS TO
GUIDE HIS EVERY STEP
AND THINGS BEGIN TO HAPPEN THAT NEITHER ONE
COULD SEEM TO HELP.
HE CAME HOME FROM THE ARMY AND WE SAW HIM
ON TV AND
BECAUSE OF THAT WIGGLE THEY WOULDN'T EVEN SHOW
HIS KNEES.
HIS CAREER IN THE MOVIES TOOK HIM FROM US FOR
AWHILE
 
EVEN THOUGH HE DIDN'T LIKE IT, HE STILL GAVE THE
WORLD A SMILE.
HE CAME BACK TO US IN PERSON.
THIS IS WHAT HE REALLY ENJOYED
AND WHEN HE FELT, HE DIDN'T PLEASE US
WITH HIMSELF HE WAS  ANNOYED
WE DEMANDED NOT UNDERSTANDING
THAT HE GIVE TO US HIS ALL
HE TRIED TO DO WHAT WE WANTED
FOR THE BIG AND THE SMALL.
THE DEMAND FOR HIS RECORDS, TO HAVE A GLIMPSE OR
TOUCH HIS HAND
BIT BY BIT IT TOOK IT'S TOLL.
FOR EVEN HE WAS JUST A MAN.
 
GOD IN  ALL HIS WISDOM EVEN THOUGH HE LOVED HIM
SO,
KNEW WHAT WAS BEST
IT WAS TIME FOR HIM TO GO.
 
 
PRECIOUS FATHER, LOVING MOTHER,
THE 'KING' IS GONE, IS WHAT THEY SAID. . .