Shaun was an accomplished musician, and singer. He started singing and playing the clarinet when he was young, and sang in an a cappella group in Hollywood.

Thomas R. Thomas started writing the poems for Missing Shaun as a way to get emotions out, to lay them down on paper, and to try to leave them somewhere safe. These poems were written mostly in the first few moments and days when emotions were raw, when it was still hard to believe that we had lost him. The last section of poems are a few small letters to you.