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I started this poem in 1993 when I walked in the front door and found my 15 year old daughter sitting on the floor in the entry way. She was lost in a starry eyed gaze as she talked to a young man on the phone. She wasn’t one to engage in pleasantries with those “air-headed teenage guys,” so this was a totally event for her.
At the time I knew the poem was not finished, but I didn’t have anything else to say. Now, 20 years later, she accepted the proposal of a young man from Alaska and became engaged on New Year’s Eve. So now I have reason to add to the poem, though it still remains unfinished.
AS THE YEARS GO BY
IN MOMENTS OF TIME
I walked in the door 9-28-93
and caught her by surprise.
Clutching the phone;
wrapped in the cord
Clutching the words;
rapt in the moment.
“The Call Of The Wild,”
on a late September evening.
“The Young And The Restless,”
on the phone in the entry.
“The First Time Ever I saw Your Face.”
The first time ever he called her at home.
...and the mysteries of the future,
call to us out of the past...
first loves;
fast friends;
yearning hearts;
treasured memories;
stirred emotions;
“New Beginnings.”
So close,
yet so far.
Haunting visions,
of the past,
today.
Todays became tomorrows 1-20-2011
of days gone by.
The girl became a woman
wrapped up in life.
Teaching preschoolers
rapt in her words.
He stood under the stars
and caught her by surprise
With bombs busting in air
In the dawns early light
A Start Spangled Banner
On a New Years night.
...and the ring of the new year
became a ring on her finger
lasting loves;
fast friends;
yearning hearts;
treasured memories;
stirred emotions;
“New Beginnings.”
So close,
yet so far.
Haunting visions,
of the past,
today.
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