Looking for "I"

Missing letter

Cleaning out my son’s room

There on the bottom

Is the alphabet board.

It is missing an I.

The cleaning continues

Now in search

Of that I.

So many letters to miss

In the room

Of a 29 year old son.

Actually I am proud

It is only one letter.

We wait to see

Whether it will appear

Before we are done

Or whether Goodwill

Will have to sell

An alphabet board

With no I,

Whether some child

Somewhere

Will be unable

To spell

Isthmus

Individual

Or idiom.

We will see

If that I

Emerges.