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Paula Finn
Member Ascendant

since 2000-06-17

Posts 5546
missouri

0 posted 2004-10-21 11:47 AM

I have a child, a little girl
They say she has my eyes,
it's really hard to tell from just
the pictures.
She has dark brown curls and dimples,
just like her mamma.
I've watched her grow from this distance
through the pictures she sends to me,
and I carry those pictures
close to my heart.
I've never heard her little girl voice,
never heard her laugh as she cuddles the stuffed kitten that was so hard to find here.
I've never heard her call me daddy.
I don't even think she knows I am her dad,
even though her mom shows her my pictures
every day.
She will be almost three before I make it home...
...if I make it home...
I have a child, a little girl.
I've never seen her.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2004-10-21 11:49 AM

sometimes you have to stop and smell the roses, even if you get stuck by the thorns...

a touching write about an all-too-common issue

DavePage
Member Elite

since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

2 posted 2004-10-21 12:07 PM

I think you captured the feelings well.

It sounds like a poem for a serviceman abroad on a 2 year posting extended to 3.

I remember listening to a BBC broadcast on a sunday that spoke of roast potatoes and a sunday dinner.

The news arrived on a weekly basis as you caught up with it.

I wonder how many people would tolerate that now.

dave

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2004-10-21 02:23 PM

A soldier's heartfelt write...
it's obvious he loves his country
just as much.

Well done, Paula.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2004-10-21 02:31 PM

This just reaches in and grabs your heart Paula..
Well done!
Hugs~

~Autumn..the year's last, loveliest smile.~

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

5 posted 2004-10-24 02:38 AM

Oh this aches

Well Done Paula.

and I am haunted
by my illicit exquisite dream
but I can't really wake up
so I just drift in between

~ani difranco~

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

6 posted 2004-10-24 06:21 AM

Paula

You suprise me with this one.....very touching write......Now I'm wondering.

Your ol pal
Eric

PS Most of your attachments don't come out on my PC and I ain't talking bout vacuum cleaners.

Love ya

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