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28 April 2010

As Dark Falls

As dark falls,
running footsteps
up the street
draw close.

For a moment
it’s thirty years ago
and my son Steve,
aged 11, runs
up the street to home —

in a different suburb
in a different State.

Then the illusion
passes, and it’s night.


NaPoWriMo Day 28


Submitted 11 Dec. 2011 for the Arrivals and Departures prompt at 'imaginary garden with real toads' 

6 comments:

  1. How our mind can take us back to those moments...Like the weaving of the present and past reflections ~

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  2. Yeah, there are times, when I am not really thinking about it, when I half expect my son to walk into the room and be ten years old. Then in the next moment, of course, I laugh at myself, but it's a complex emotion I feel at those times.

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  3. Reminiscent of the past...I do love remembering those cherished moments and for split seconds being taken back to them. Love how you wrote to put us in that moment!

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  4. It is hard to accept that not only has one's own childhood passed, but that of one's children too. No matter their age though, I hope their journeys always involve some running towards us.

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  5. The hint of sadness in this poem is because, although he was a lovely boy, if the man came running towards me now I'd be running fast in the opposite direction! They don't always turn out as we would hope.

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