Gone

"Where are you?" 
Christians mom wrote so many months ago
on his facebook page
Where Happy Birthday greetings from one year
bump against those from another

Where've you gone this time Christian
If you get locked up again
or buried
I imagine your folks will be contacted
so we assume you're still out there, somewhere, alive

You and I used to drink with Holy Rock
and his brother Billy
in the courtyard by the church
I imagine they had people somewhere also
wondering where they'd gone
gone
how can drowning take so god damn long

Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year
"Where are you?"
Where are you? 
I've waited to hear that you were gone
really gone
For 30 years now