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Array ( [sid] => 86827 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Farewelling the Child [time] => 2005-03-08 05:11:55 [hometext] => For those who have felt or who are feeling the Empty Nest Syndrome [bodytext] =>

The house is too big without you,
The long corridors echoing with footfalls
The silence, heavy and oppressive,
As I take the slow pulse of the walls

- Gone

Your room is like an empty shell,
The chick has pecked free and fled the nest
The emptiness ripples like a stone in a well,
The thump, thump, thumping in the hollow breast

- Away

No more your raucous tones cutting the air,
The detritus of your life trailing like a comet’s tail
So many things you did drove me to despair,
Relationships can seem so frail

- For now. [comments] => 5 [counter] => 208 [topic] => 23 [informant] => spike [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 25 [ratings] => 5 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => FamilyPoems )

Farewelling the Child

Contributed by spike on Tuesday, 8th March 2005 @ 05:11:55 AM in AEST
Topic: FamilyPoems

The house is too big without you,
The long corridors echoing with footfalls
The silence, heavy and oppressive,
As I take the slow pulse of the walls

- Gone

Your room is like an empty shell,
The chick has pecked free and fled the nest
The emptiness ripples like a stone in a well,
The thump, thump, thumping in the hollow breast

- Away

No more your raucous tones cutting the air,
The detritus of your life trailing like a comet’s tail
So many things you did drove me to despair,
Relationships can seem so frail

- For now.

Copyright Â© spike ... [ 2005-03-08 05:11:55]
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Re: Farewelling the Child (User Rating: 1 )
by emystar on Tuesday, 8th March 2005 @ 05:40:30 AM AEST
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I remember when my fisrt one left the nest, my oldest daughter, it was horrible.
The only thing I could do was try to focus on the good side of it like, It want be as much laundry. Never could get passed that one.
good write.
huggs, luv,
emy

Re: Farewelling the Child (User Rating: 1 )
by Rhymingron on Tuesday, 8th March 2005 @ 06:45:09 AM AEST
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A good one.

Re: Farewelling the Child (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Tuesday, 8th March 2005 @ 06:53:41 AM AEST
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Nicely done. Seee I keep telling my mum that she'd miss me if I left home, me being the youngest of eight, but she doesn't believe me. *grins* I like this one, deep, expressive and insightful, thanks for sharing.

Take Care
- Becca

Re: Farewelling the Child (User Rating: 1 )
by Silent-No-More on Saturday, 12th March 2005 @ 09:05:19 PM AEST
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It'll be years before I know the enormity of this. But the thump, thump, thumping... tells me it's a lot bigger than the words on the page. *sigh*

Knowing not how one let's go of the comet's tail,
~SNM~

Re: Farewelling the Child (User Rating: 1 )
by MorningDove on Sunday, 17th April 2005 @ 12:49:34 PM AEST
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Well, you got the feeling right down to the last teardrop. That is the most empty feeling I have ever felt. I didn't realize how much of my life was tied up with theirs. I really can't believe how well you captured it. Dove

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