Avalanche

Most of my poems are about a specific person but this one regards several people who have been part of my life.

We are a distant memory

 A sandcastle washed away by the tide

We are snowflakes falling down

Lost once we hit the ground

 

We’re a picture in a frame

Taken down from the wall

Hidden in the back of the closet

Buried beneath a pile of forgotten things

 

The ink dried long ago

The paper blew away with the wind

My grip on the string slipped

And the balloon floated away

 

Our history has been documented

In hundreds of stanzas

You can read every painstaking detail

Just in case you wanted to remember

 

We’re a picture in a frame

But you dropped it and broke the glass

We’re a sandcastle on the beach

But we got stomped on by a kid

 

We are a distant memory

Our balloon got popped

We were climbing a slippery slope

And got buried beneath the avalanche

Reviews

[Kieta!]

Wow! I really love the words you chose! They are so descriptive and beautiful, and I just love the way you worded this poem!! :) Great job!! :)