Just Missing Michael...by Shari Barnes

I awakened one day and I am living, breathing, there's people around me that say "I'm your mother, Katherine" and "I'm your father Joseph, "I'm your brother and I'm your sister, we're your family you're a Jackson."

What is this strange thing that I hear, I feel, I want? It sounds so good to me everyone in my family knows this thing; I'm just a little boy that they call Michael. I'm listening to the sounds, I'm listening to a voice when I'm alone and I hear it all. It sounds so good to me ; it's so clear to me that I must sing and dance. Oh how I love it, I'm good at this it's a part of me but I'm just a boy.

Wow! Everybody's screaming, "The Jackson Five" while I'm screaming "I want to play, I want to have friends"...yet the stage is fantastic, I love it.

I can do more, I feel it...I can give and change the world to make it a better place. I'm Michael Jackson, now why don't you see me beyond my natural flaws? I'll change my appearance, now why do you mock and ridicule me. I write, sing and dance so that you will know my heart.

From a boy to a man who am ? I am Michael Joseph Jackson a human being that God made to be one of the greatest entertainers of all times. I know you in the USA, Europe, Africa, Asia and the world. I will always love and share my gift from God; I will always reach out to you with lyrics, my loving spirit and soul in song..."I'm bad you know it!"

Just missing Michael 

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