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Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

0 posted 2001-03-16 11:24 PM

I labeled my memories so carefully
and filed them away in my mind.
I knew they'd be there when needed.
They would be so easy to find.

Page after page of my long life
would be there for a book.
What has beome of those images
and mental notes I took?

Someone slipped into their storage room
and has left everything in a heap.
How could they treat me so cruelly?
Did they do this when I was asleep?

Who are the faces around me?
I really don't know them at all
and I don't recognize those picures
that are hanging on my wall.

Why have they hidden my babies?
I'm so sure I can hear them cry.
I look for them but cannot find them,
no matter how hard I may try.

Please go and find my mama.
Everything will be all right.
She knows that I will need her
to tuck me in at night.

I'll just pull up these blankets
and wait for her to come.
Now who is it I am waiting for?
It's okay, I've found my thumb.

By Joyce 6/30/2000

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

1 posted 2001-03-16 11:52 PM

This happened to my maternal grandmother before she died. She thought she was just a little girl again and waiting for her parents to come and get her. Very sad but there was a real sweetness about it too. I like your poem Joyce.

Betty Lou Hebert

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

2 posted 2001-03-17 03:17 AM

JJoyce this is moving. Thank you, very sad and lovely piece

Red-uni
Member

since 2000-07-30

Posts 192
Georgia, USA

3 posted 2001-03-17 12:05 PM

Very well written. We are going through this with my dad. It is sad, a lovely piece you wrote of such sadness.

Red

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

4 posted 2001-03-17 12:15 PM

Thank you. This happened to a dear sister-in-law and as I was visiting her, I heard another walking down the hall, crying for her mother. It broke my heart. Joyce

Jellybean King
Member

since 2001-03-07

Posts 153
Jelly, Bean

5 posted 2001-03-17 01:06 PM

I loved the way each line takes the reader a little bit deeper and deeper into regression...and each progression becomes more and more devistating. Moving...and well executed!

Jellybean King

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