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SPIRIT
Senior Member

since 2002-12-29

Posts 1745
California Desert

0 posted 2004-06-16 07:53 PM

The Treehouse

When I was young
I built a tree house,
so tall that it
touched the sun.
I furnished it
with my dreams…
all that I aspired to be.

It housed love,
patience, honesty,
and commitment.
It was fueled
by integrity,
unselfishness,
passion and caring.

It was a domain
of great intelligence
and higher learning.
A place to escape to
when escape was needed.
It was the most
private place…by far
that I had ever known.

As I got a little older,
I vacated my tree house
for the tenants changed,
and the fires fueled
by positive energy,
had died down.
It no longer accommodated
the quick wit and bright mind
of the younger days,
and it was no longer
an escape…for it was
constantly in turmoil,
rarely private,
badly abused.

Now I am old
and I sit and dream,
and have recaptured
some of that
which once was lost.
I wish once more
to sit in the house
that touched the sun.
But I have left
it way too late.
All I aspired to
is out of reach,
long gone.

I am tired,
The heights I once upon a time
wished for, are unassailable.
My youth was over-ruled
by growth and wrong choices,
and now, unfortunately
the tree house of my mind
will remain…abandoned.

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

1 posted 2004-06-18 10:56 AM

Sad. I too sometims long for the treehouse of my childhood, When anything was possible and the future was secure. Love, Joyce

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

2 posted 2004-06-18 01:17 PM

SPIRIT: Well written and interesting poem.
I never had a tree house but I sure loved to climb trees when I was young. It definitely was a place to dream!

Betty Lou

Betty Lou Hebert

SPIRIT
Senior Member

since 2002-12-29

Posts 1745
California Desert

3 posted 2004-06-21 10:35 AM

Thank you - strictly a treehouse of the mind.

junemac
Senior Member

since 2003-04-24

Posts 1005
uk

4 posted 2004-06-22 10:59 AM

lovely again. I am enjoying these poems of yours.
Hugs June x

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