Distance
Gabrielle Etta Jackson 1977 (Stamford)
Those memories of you
Like the sunshine
Mudpies in the sand and making saltine delicacies
I remember the junkyard and fears and us making up games to “save us”
Mama, You, Me
One two three shadows, and the fourth a quieted alert to keep the unknowns in view
Now these are all that are left of us
What we were
Not Three, Not Two, Just one left to count
No one replaces the space it just helps us grow closer to the other side
The distance between the living grows with every loss
I see that now
We will meet again.
About this poem
Memories of being a child in SE DC and its challenges
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Written on May 25, 2022
Submitted by thejadelotus on May 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 549 |
Words | 125 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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