"Pleas..."

Memories in a now late afternoon…

 

"Pleas..."

 

I was three

Daddy Jack left

me

standing at the closed gate

watching the world

…my world…

End…

as it always has -

again

and again

and again.

 

Chris

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Ruth]

An eclipse to any child's light. Unfathomable in many ways. Life has a way of rebirthing us every so often, albeit painfully yet the sun still rises in-between, allowing a pause and some warmth to thaw the cold sadness of memories...

[Tina]

So sad.. I used to have nightmares if my parents abandoning me LOL

[Gee]

Once into adulthood and a father myself I promised, inwardly, that I would be the father to my daughter that I would have wished my own had been to me had he not buggered off.
Good afternoon

[Chris]

Life as we live it is not always as we want it...

[Chris Shaw]

Powerful words. An abandoned child would forever miss that father. I felt that child's pain grow with the years here. Children need loving parents to nurture them.

Chris

[John the Baptist]

Has the sound of abandonment at an early age. Such an experience can cause the subconscious expectation of a repetition, which often occurs.

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

Memories from our youth do have such a powerful resonance to them that they linger forever in our mind. Especially those that are very traumatic. This piece illustrated such a powerfully sad moment. Thank you Chris for sharing your poem with us.