| Subject: Back to school blues |
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Melissa
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Date Posted: 11:14:48 08/16/01 Thu
Author Host/IP: okc-27-147-183.mmcable.com/24.27.147.183
The summer dragged on, with fighting and screams,
Windows were broken and weary were dreams.
I grew hoarse from my pleas, for a moment of peace,
They laughed and ran through leaving foot trails of grease.
I prayed for this day, the first day of school,
Both monsters captured and tamed with firm rule.
But today is the day, and I am shocked to admit
I am missing them terribly, even the fits.
I walk through the house, already back clean,
No shoes to trip over, just a blinding fresh gleam.
No “mommy, mommy,” being yelled in my ear.
No scraped knees and boo boos to kiss until clear.
I should have danced with joy through my house like a blizzard,
But instead spent an hour, talking to their lizard.
I folded their clothes, and noticed strange tears.
The dream of all day wasn’t as imagined for nine years.
Do I want to go back, to the diapers and bottles?
To the crumbs on the floor and the chubby legged toddles?
Heaven forbid I even consider it at all
I must learn to have a life, and get past withdrawls.
I’m sure I’m not the first to weep like a fool,
in a house normally rowdy, silenced by school.
But I will survive, I am sure that I will,
Even if it requires a hefty therapy bill.
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