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sheba57
Member

since 1999-06-27

Posts 64
vincennes, in usa

0 posted 1999-08-02 01:45 AM

my daughter called the other day
just to say goodbye.
of course, i didn't know it
at the time.

as i sit and reflect,
i remember how not
so very long ago.
she called and told me
of a man.

"oh, mama," she said, "he is
so wonderful."
i smiled to myself
thinking, "baby, this too
shall pass."

every week she would call
"mama," she would say.
"mama, he makes me
feel so special.
like i'm the only one."

then she called the other day,
and she said, "mama, i wanted
to say goodbye."
"where are you
going," i asked.

she replied with a catch
in her voice. "i don't
know mama, but it will be
somewhere nice."

"promise me, mama,"
she went on,
"don't miss me too
much while i am gone."
"k, baby," i replied, "but you know
i always do."

we talked a little longer
and then said goodbye.
why didn't i know at the
time that she really meant
goodbye?

[This message has been edited by sheba57 (edited 08-02-99).]

angel girl
Member

since 1999-07-23

Posts 322
within a whisper...

1 posted 1999-08-02 07:47 AM

wow, this was really great. i feel like crying. gonna go grab a tissue now.
angel

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hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

2 posted 1999-08-02 08:37 AM

I enjoyed this poem and I am not exactly sure why except to say I did.

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"Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald

Cinderella
Member

since 1999-06-23

Posts 152
Arizona

3 posted 1999-08-02 09:40 AM

The strength you have within you...what can
I say! The tears flowed...

sheba57
Member

since 1999-06-27

Posts 64
vincennes, in usa

4 posted 1999-08-02 04:31 PM

thanks to each of you. i really can't say where this one came from except that i was somewhat melancholy when i wrote it. i don't usually write in this form.

sheba57

JP
Senior Member

since 1999-05-25

Posts 1343
Loomis, CA

5 posted 1999-08-02 04:37 PM

Nil desperandum

JP

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