SORRY

PHOTO CREDIT: Lee Plaza Hotel, Detroit, photo by Bonnie Beechler
MAGPIE TALES Prompt 210

The house was just as you left it.

I dared not make any change.

I wanted you to be right at home

when you return.

After the children were put to bed,

I would stand by the window

staring at the rose -lined path

that you usually took to get to our front door

for the sound of your steps

or the flicker of light

from your cigarette.

I wanted to tell you –

the first word our little one uttered,

how I begged for an extra shift at work the other day,

ah, but  my hair was turning gray,

the children are all grown and gone,

You’d be proud.

But I did not have the chance to

I was called away.

I’m sorry

if the  home you knew is no more.

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For Magpie Tales.  I played with several scenarios/ideas before I came up with this piece at the last minute.   Sometimes, I find myself almost forcing myself to write.  Otherwise, I will get carried away by my laziness and drop everything altogether.

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