1985

Front porch
Sittin’ on the front porch
Enjoying the afternoon sun
Breeze blowing through my long blonde hair
Living life without a care

I bought you flowers
Flowers for your birthday
You cried when you read the card
The picture of you holding them
Remembering is so hard

Christmas dance
My first Christmas dance
My first kiss, so tender, warm
Holding hands with sweaty palms
I poured out my heart without any qualms

Messy Divorce
My mother filed for a divorce
Relationship took a different course
My father’s crying would begin
His fault for the mess he was in

Alcoholic brother
My brother drank his sorrows away
Drove a truck into a ditch
Angry little brother diverting any blame
My mother’s reaction was just the same!

Grandmother passing
I spent the whole day with you
You seemed fine to me, nothing wrong
Fell and broke your ankle
Three days later you were gone.

Internal Death
I died that day holding your hand
I felt your squeeze, saw the tear on your cheek
Slapped in the face as the lights grew dim
I knew you were leaving to be with HIM.

Lonely girl
All alone in this crazy world
Had to grow up much sooner
Be an example, time not easy to spend
Fight to the end, fight to the end...

Reviews

[Wórdsmíth]

A lady's heart be more like a flower in meadow. It needs protection from bugs, safety of love, security to peace, and of course, the love off stuffs, however, heart's heart whether it's of men's heart or women's, it needs to be broken, sometime, but not the way it gets shattered into pieces. A very deep and heartfelt poetry you've come up with.

Looking forward to reading your stuffs, and i'll make sure to subscribe to your writes as well!

[Zenovia]

Lonely girl
All alone in this crazy world
Had to grow up much sooner

You have done it superbly...
Described in a near perfect manner

[Najam Us Saher]

Very heart touching story which shows the life and misery in each stanza. I liked the poem and the conclusion.

[Dr. YumnaKay]

You told a whole story in a really good way. An account of what happened in that year. I liked the short words describing it all and with a nice flow to go along..
Idk I felt like in this line of the last stanza:
"Be an example, time not easy to spend"
shouldn't it read better if it was "time's not easy to spend" or something to that effect? Just my opinion..
I liked reading this. Nicely penned, Anastasia :)
Your name reminds me of fifty shades of Gray lol :P

[Michael G. Smith]

Thank you for sharing this with us. I was wondering how old you were because we have many parallels from reading this. I'm 49 and 1985 was a very tragic year for me also and I had to grow up really fast. I'm betting you grew stronger form these experiences at least my wishes that you did. A very great poem. a solid write that drew me in immediately.

[Surya]

Fight to end, well you truly described your write poetically, good job, I enjoyed reding....:)

[wordman]

wow,that sounds like a full late

[Paul]

Such a descriptive, and emotional poem. I very much enjoyed the read. And a flow that was easy to follow. Well done! Thanks for sharing.

Paul

[Stacy Purvis]

Thank you so much, Paul. 😊

[Mr.Writer]

Once again... amazing!! Wow! Anastasia! You blew it on this one!

"Fight to the end, fight to the end..."
So inspirational! What's the secret Anastasia?! Can I rent your imagination for 2 days please? ;) I mean, this takes skill! You take different events and flow and mix them so well throughout the poem! Show your skill to everyone in the community! They will love it! I'm tellin ya... :)

[Stacy Purvis]

Take my brain for a day, please!!! Lol...j/k

[Mr.Writer]

Oh, aww, I was about to lol :D

[Stacy Purvis]

Too adorable.