You Don'T Know What You Got Till It's Gone

“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone...” from the song Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell Age four on the ice with double-bladed skates Big sis skated slowly looking down at me How well I remember the way she would wait Always watching over me filled with such glee When I was nine she married into money Country club lifestyle, hand-sewn silver fox coat Her branch took a split from our family tree As the years passed, she grew more and more remote How I miss those days when she would lend a hand To a smiling child who was her devotee Poor and not as pretty, I live in nowhere land And my sis continues looking down at me Dedicated to my sister, whose companionship and love I miss. For Chris Matt’s “Favorite Music Lyrics” contest