'Jesus' missing years?'

'Jesus' missing years?'      (Not what you might think) timothy r gates, 4/08/2013

there are more books
about
Jesus' missing years?
than that 1st, 12th
and those last 3.5.
Gods or humans,
the storyteller
knows better than
redactionists.
Funny,
preachers of faith
detractors of romantics -
neither have a paycheck
without the poet.
After all these years
i can still hear my Grandpa,
his stories,
when i was a wee lad, and
now i'm an aging man.
i don't know the missing
lines, refrains
or much about his
orphaned years from 6 to 16 -
his twinkling blues
still baptize me,
rolling back healed over scars,
perhap unwittingly he was my icon
to behold
being one star in the universe
is sufficient for awe.
the chapters i know
fill my shelves,
giving me happy tears
and grins.