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notlikely2
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since 2000-06-16
Posts 308
UK

0 posted 2000-07-18 03:55 AM



I wrote this after reading in my local paper about the death of a young girl, just before her
parents received her exam results.


Seventeen
A brilliant scholar
Planning for your future
Life mapped out in detail
One of the few to know
Just where you wanted to go

After school
If your grades were good
College
Then a technical career
Beating the boys at their own game

While you waited for that letter
A welcome break
Away from the study and stress
I wonder
Did you ever feel
Love's sweet caress
A kiss
A touching of hands as you walked
Or was your mind still too full of exams

Marking your map with alternative routes
Just in case thing went astray
An extra year at school perhaps
Or re-sits in the spring
I'm sure you thought you'd thought
Of everything

You did
Almost

If one today is worth two tomorrow's
What would we give for yesterday

Then you were here
Now you are gone
And just too late
The letter came

But you got good grades just the same


Love is like the mumps.....the older you are, the harder it hits you!

© Copyright 2000 John Ward - All Rights Reserved
ethome
Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada
1 posted 2000-07-18 04:21 AM


"If one today is worth two tommorrows
what would we give for yesterday?"

Great line!  Very sad poem. Point well taken.

linda munday
Member
since 2000-06-17
Posts 315
Adelaide, Australia
2 posted 2000-07-18 05:51 AM


Notlikely,
You have done a remarkable job with this poem.
Very sad indeed.
I had a grandmother who died the day after she had a new oven installed, she had had the old oven for over 30 years.
What good is a new oven if you're dead!
Linda M.

notlikely2
Member
since 2000-06-16
Posts 308
UK
3 posted 2000-07-18 06:09 AM


ethome
Thank you - I didn't know the girl in question, but the story really touched me. I had to write something to capture my feelings of that moment.

Linda
Yes it was very sad. And I suppose an oven is a bit like good grades....lots of good things can come out of both of them.....provided you know how to use them!!

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