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Roger Leewright
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since 1999-09-25
Posts 28
Beaverton, OR.USA

0 posted 1999-10-06 12:12 PM


Memories of "me"

You see me sitting in my room,
Alone in the dark, my friend only gloom.
What thoughts are running through my mind?,
Memories of "me" I am trying to find.

In the memory of dreams and with the minds eye,
I hear the sounds of a child’s cry.
It is the youth that I once used to be,
Wondering in circles, trying to get free.

No memory left of what children did play,
For many years now he’s been fighting the decay.
Just once again to be born unto a world so new,
He must act his age, and can’t stand that too.

What kind of price would he gladly pay?
To have his youth back, if just for a day.
To feel the sunshine, and endless summer nights,
The wind in his face as he flies his box kites.

"To hell" with the dreaming, it can never be had,
I have two beautiful children, I should not be sad.
I’ve done and seen so very many things,
I’ve even exchanged wedding rings.

Yet still, when I’m alone in my room,
And the flowers have wilted and lost their bloom,
I can’t shake this feeling, that I’ve missed a lot,
Oh well, I guess, it’s the only life I’ve got!!!

© Copyright 1999 Roger Leewright - All Rights Reserved
Rosemary J. Gwaltney
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since 1999-08-26
Posts 997
northern mountains, Idaho
1 posted 1999-10-06 04:55 PM


There's a lot of truth and reality here. I like it. Certainly there is always that haunted element about our inner selves, I think, even when life is good. The lost past ...

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...Living is ever like crossing rivers; finding a new life on each shore ... RJG

Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648

2 posted 1999-10-06 09:41 PM


Excellent poem.

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Denise

Justbleu
Member Elite
since 1999-08-31
Posts 3329
Oregon, Originally From Alaska :)
3 posted 2001-12-06 11:21 PM


Those memories.....I often wonder if I'd rather go back...then I remember it's better now.  But, there are things about being very young that I miss.  I liked this...reflective, dreamy, and maybe a little regret in this.  

Go swing on a swing, or go sledding, play with your childrens toys.  

Bridgette

passing shadows
Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
4 posted 2003-01-01 04:32 AM


shake it quick! Life is short!
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