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19 May 2014

Empty Nest

Now that I have the solitude I craved,
and can please myself what I do when,
I find myself missing the hullabaloo
of unpredictable family life

the romping and squabbling and chatter
of two little boys, the necessity
of sports fixtures, lessons, meals, holidays;
all the warmth, the stress, the pleasure, the strife,

the many distractions, the constant clatter ...
now that I'm free to read, write poems, be who
I always thought I wanted to be —
that she quite other than mother/housewife —

I drift amongst all the things I might do
and wonder how much, after all, they matter.

A bref double for the current Poetic Asides form challenge

1 comment:

  1. Be careful what you wish for, they say. A fine portrait of the transition.

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