Haunting Separation Anxiety
Haunted with dread of separation anxiety
Anguish I felt with certainty
Yet due to childhood’s knowledge-obscurity
I could not fathom its reality.
Such awful feeling I experienced when my mother left me for a while
Not that she would go afar; not even a mile
During my first encounter as a learning juvenile
In a kindergarten class, of “no parents allowed inside” style.
Now, entrusted with special children secured in my motherly presence
I delight seeing kids experience God’s love and care’s iridescence---
Yet, whenever I announce, midst long silence, about my would-be absence
I can sense torturous separation-despair gripping their innocence.
As an adult, this haunting feeling grips me, I admit
Though I believe I had moved on… with what my heart before… did permit
Still, miserable cries of separation --- haunt me to my soul’s limit
Thus, to the Lord’s triumphant freedom I submit.*
*Psalm 92:4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
September 27, 2019
2nd place, "Haunted" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin; judged on 9/28/2019.
Copyright © Beata Agustin | Year Posted 2019
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