Poster

I stop eating

My friend talks on but his words have become sounds I can't follow

Instead I can't stop looking into their faces on the poster

Plastered on the dusty coke machine

Lost? run away? stolen?

I am flooded with teddy bears and birthdays, pink dresses and smiles

Rooms still hung with posters, single dirty socks peeking from unmade beds

Shoes and diaries and blue ribbons,

Refrigerators still hum with slices of leftover cake or hamburgers with bites of perfect teeth imprints

How do they keep on, the parents who yesterday read them tuck-in stories

Looking into their bright eyes

Who worked every day to drop quarters into college funds

With full faith in the unbroken forward flow of life

Fell asleep to whispered dreams of far future grandchildren

How do they go on, these parents who see their lives in an instant

Reduced to a thousand copies of a face on a flier?

How can I go on, and eat?

Ever again until I have walked every road and searched every shadow

Until I have found every one of those faces,

or maybe dragged every person in the world out of their beds to look with me.

Reviews

[Lydia]

Nice poem. Great job!

[TC Dunn]

lovely…just simply lovely. Great imagery. Great flow. Very well written.

[† Allybear!!! &d..]

Im sorry, I dont get it..... :/

[Lily Mae]

"How can I go on, and eat?
Ever again until I have walked every road and searched every shadow
Until I have found every one of those faces,
or maybe dragged every person in the world out of their beds to look with me."

I simply love this part.. as a whole wonderful but this speaks volumes..x

[Alana McGuire]

I really really really enjoyed this. It's not something I've seen someone write about in quite a long time. I've always wondered what it would be like if your child or other family member was missing. When do you start laughing again and enjoy going out? When is it acceptable?
Very interesting write and great descriptions :)

[McKenna B.]

I wasn't able to follow at some points, like some things that were connected didn't seem like they should be, but that's my only critique. I really like this poem. You're an amazing writer!!

[i-love-you-boo♥]

Really good nice job=)

[Chris Yip]

Nice but serious poem full of depth and insight into the sufferings of the parents. Good study on the pain and loss behind those posters. This could make a good community poster with a poem on lost kids. Self comparison of your own good and wholesome life brings out the urgency of the cause to find this lost ones. WEll SPOKEN MY FRIEND!!!

[Cassie Fraga]

mmmm... wouldnt that be a site... for the whole world to help...
very nice read here!! kinda makes you think for a min. great job!!!