Long Sadfamily Poems
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Comfortably curled up, after a tiring day,
I'm sipping my decaf, like I quite often do
While reading the evening news,
My after dinner ritual,
like feeding the dog,
and wiping down the counter, after dishes have been washed..
Last night...why should this time have be any different?
The stories I read, the politics, the current events, the tragedy..
Yes daily tragedies that happen every day, in every town...
I can't think about them all...I can't weep for each and every one...
Oh yes....I can care, ...and I can feel sorrow..
.... But I can't, ......I just can't, make them my own...
But last night I did....
Last night, just reading these two paragraphs
black and white, a mother's plight
the account of a tragic tale...
This one landed, here on my doorstep
A headline in my small town
Brought to life, how one instant can change it all....
How this fine young family who lives in our town
Took a carefree day's outing, a picnic..and a hike
In the most beautiful place in the world
Hiking a trail in the grandeur of our nearby National Park
In a fateful moment...a landslide of expected tragedy
Could end the life of her little son, injure her young daughter
Change a family forever.....why, just a week ago...this was just such sad news...
Last night....reading her own words...it became personal.
Her child became my child....and today I grieve......
(true event)
Wanted child
Hence i was born
Two loving parents
The perfect norm
All it takes is just one day
The marital ropes will start to fray
Parental bliss, family born
Will suddenly be not as strong
Many events make this so
For either parent to come or go
The innocents stare
In wonderment gaze
What makes their parents
Go through this phase
The make up of people
The roads they take
Is it all for themselves
Or their children's sake
In many a city
In many a town
Parental off roaders
Tear family life down
Utopia will never be ,the worlds perfect family
It takes real love and affection to make them stay
50 - 50 each have their say
If it's not to be either will roam
Leading to
Another Broken Home
The TV screen displays the news of a “Breaking Story”;
An airplane crash creates a scene both ominous and gory.
The volume is down;
There is no sound,
As he sits there staring off in space.
A phone in his hand
Waiting his command
As tears traverse down his face.
“No Survivors” is seen upon the screen of the silent set.
He presses “play” to hear again the voicemail he’ll never forget.
Her voice is gay
As he hears her say:
“Honey we’ve made the flight”.
“We miss you much;
I miss your touch;
Can’t wait to see you tonight.”
His phone vibrates for the hundredth time; he doesn’t answer the call.
His heart breaks every time he sees the family portrait on the wall.
They had gone to see
Her family
Who live on the opposite shore.
He was putting on his shoes
When he got the news
That his family he’d see no more.
The room grows dark; his body is numb; he cannot stop the tears.
Guilt sets in; “Why wasn’t I with them?” he’ll ask the rest of his years.
Life goes on
For everyone
But those who were on that flight.
Sitting at home,
All alone,
His soul he lost on that night.