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Lady In White
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0 posted 2001-04-15 06:52 PM


Amazing Memories

how far?
how far can you
return to a time
that was yours
and his, alone?

I can go back decades
when it was just
him and I
taking care of
the house,
“sprucing up,”
he called it,
a big grin under
that big nose,
under that
dark hair
and blazing
blue eyes

tall, he was so tall,
and he would take
me up in his arms
and dance me around
our little house,
just him and his girl…

our love we wore
like cloaks,
keeping us warm
in the silence

we only had a few days
of this oneness,
this special time,

when one day, he came home
and said, “I’ll get ready,
and we’ll go”

and I was about to lose
my best guy, and
our times
of special…

so as he prepared
by shaving,
splashing his
Old Spice on
a firm, smooth face,
putting on a crisp
clean shirt,

I sat and watched him
and my heart swelled
with love
as it never had before.

He was mine,
and no one would
ever have that moment
with him.

Just him and me.  

Soon we left, and he
carried me up high on
his shoulders,
so the smells of the
hospital would
not frighten me,
for I was in a place
that normally kids did
not go,
a hospital,

to see my mother
since my brother’s birth,

and my Dad had this
way with him,
promising the nurses
I would not be a problem
and he was so right.

Mother did not come
through hard times
well, and she
did not look her pretty
self, there in the bed,
but rather a wan,
weak woman,
and I think I realized then,

that I would be the
stronger of the two of
his girls,

but when I looked at
Dad, and he looked at
the love of his life,

I knew I was only
his girl,

and not his true love.

But from that age of
two,

I book-marked a
moment in my mind,

one that I shall never
forget,

one that was ours,
alone.



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1 posted 2001-04-15 06:54 PM


A quiet "wow" is all I can say to this one, Lady...
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2 posted 2001-04-15 06:57 PM


that treasured memory - I'm pleased to tell you ('tho no doubt you know) was shared - from hs POV - as a dad - - as a g'dad - I KNOW -
Soooo - NOW - i'll say "thank you"

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3 posted 2001-04-15 06:58 PM


What an incredible, vivid memory...filled with feeling.  My relationship with my own father is at best strained or civil.  Though I can't miss something I never had, your poem tells me that I missed something very special.

Speak when you are angry--and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret...Laurence J. Peter

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4 posted 2001-04-15 10:42 PM


LadyInWhite~
Most lovely.
~*Marge*~

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5 posted 2001-04-15 11:10 PM


Lady--A heart stopper memory...well protected.
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6 posted 2001-04-15 11:13 PM


Lady,

      .... I am truely speechless... wow is all I can think of to say.  It's an amazing poem.. and an amazing memory....

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7 posted 2001-04-16 09:01 AM


Treasures of the mind.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.


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