Certain Dates
Certain dates we don’t forget
For it is automatic
To think about events which
In our lives were quite traumatic.
November twenty-second and
Eleventh of September
Are dates my generation
Will just naturally remember.
But other dates are personal
And even if I tried,
I never could forget today,
The date my father died.
Each year I flash back to that time
And feel that jolt of pain
That 12/10 on the calendar
Will trigger in my brain.
Copyright © Ilene Bauer | Year Posted 2023
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