This Poem was Submitted By: Patricia Anne Travers On Date: 2001-06-24 19:48:18 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Missing In Action

The house is dark and empty now that Lucy's gone, and twilight tiptoes silently across the unkempt lawn up to the weathered porch where blue hydrangeas drift, where Lucy on those sleepless nights alone, bereft, would sit and slowly rock upon the wooden swing, and wait for news of him that early spring. And some folks say they think her ghost still haunts the old home place. Some say they've even seen the tears on Lucy's careworn face. And some say, too, that when the wind blows through the Georgia pine, you can hear that porch  swing's rusty creak, and someone softly crying, and that she still is rocking there.. she rocks, and waits, and yearns, for a soldier boy so young and brave, who never did return.

Copyright © June 2001 Patricia Anne Travers


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