Coming Home
COMING HOME
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I Was Just a Teenage, Yet I’ll Not Forget That Day
When We Were Notified That My Brother Was an MIA
That Chilling Notice Was to Play Hard on Our Lives
A Long Lasting Memory Stain That No One Survives
Mom, Totally Devastated with No Where to Turn
Dad Consoling Knows, There’s More Info We’ll Learn
He May Be Wandering, Lost Unable to Communicate
May Have Been Captured: Then He’ll Just Repatriate
Mom Is Positive He’ll Rejoin Us, She Knows Someday
Dad Addressing, Innate Fears We Need to Allay
Mom Refuses to Consider, That He May Be Dead
His Return Is the Only Thought in Her Head
Difficult Times, a Morose Feeling Hung in the Air
Mom Scolded, Dad Argued, Brought on by Despair
Mom Feared for Sis and I, Becoming Overprotective
Our Growing up Needs and Friends Often Rejected
Restricted Our Activities with Each Passing Day
Sis Rebelling Causing Turmoil Day after Day
Surprisingly, it Wasn’t Long After, Sis Ran Away
Year after Year the Unknowing Took its Toll
Mom’s Sons Returning Home, Her Singular Goal
Dad, Increasingly Withdrawn Seldom Spoke
Childhood Reminiscing, Tears Would Provoke
All Those Days, Then Years of Daily Despondence
Mom Always Said I Am Awaiting My Sons Presence
Mom Passed Away, Dad Joined Her Soon after
In All Those Years Was the Absence of Laughter
They’re Together Anew in the Same Plot of Ground
The Answer to a “ Missing in Action” Yet to Be Found
Left an Unfilled Desire to Be United with Their Son
Mom Often Said, Someday I’ll Be Greeting My Son
Many Years Have Gone by since That Unnerving Day
Thoughts of My Brother Have Mostly Faded Away
Yet Remembrances Still Vivid Even Now That I’m Gray
When Contacted by a Laboratory Wanting My DNA
Now after All These Years Mom and Dad Won’t Be Alone
They’ve Identified My Brother and He’s Coming Home
Copyright © John Arribas | Year Posted 2019
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