This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Daniel Adams who was born in Missouri on November 08, 1987 and passed away on February 21, 2006 at the age of 18. We will remember him forever.

Gentle Boys / Terri Tyler (Mother)
Gentle Boys - By Mary Withers

This one's for the gentle boy
who wrestles with his pain,
His easy-bruising tender heart,
And ever-active brain.
He feels much more than others do,

But then he tries to hide
With laughter or bravado,
The gentle boy inside.
With wit and style and artifice

His secrets kept so well.
Who dreams the brave facade you see
Conceals some private Hell?
Meanwhile, the brutes live on and on,

Their unexamined lives.
The low, the stupid, and the cruel,
The sluggish dolt thrives,
To fill the world with empty talk

And greed and hate and noise.
To breed, carouse,
and make life Hell
For all the gentle boys.

Some gentle boys grow heartsick,
And tired of this charade.
They blow themselves right off the Earth,
Or fight, then fail, then fade.

If you should love a gentle boy
There's little you can do.
If he decides his time has come,
He'll leave the Earth and you.

He cannot see that if he goes,
You'll never fill that space.
You'll spend your whole life searching
For that laugh, that kiss, that face.
How can the gentle boy not know?

You loved him beyond death,
You'd help him anyway you could,
Unto your dying breath?
Someday when justice reigns on Earth,

We all may greet with joy
A world where it won't hurt so much
To be a gentle boy.