Monday, July 15, 2019

Cause Your Heart is a Trailer Park

Linking with the Sunday Muse for Muse # 64
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There are memories I choose not to live with, but we occasionally meet for a drink. 
~Robert Brault


North Texas is a land of storms
And in 1970 so was our living room
And when your 6 years old
You can’t just pick up and leave town
Your stuck like a fence post
In the middle of tornado alley
The rain is going to come down hard
The winds may knock you down
Cause your heart is a trailer park
That is just the way it is
So you learn to pray
And sometimes look the other way
Like the eastern window of an old house
Then no matter how you try
Part of it follows you
Down the road are pieces of your past
Like remnants of a tornado’s destruction
And you find yourself sitting
Back in that same old place even if it is just for a little while
I look back and I see that 6-year-old sometimes
And find she is not that far away
Just another rain storm away
From remembering
What not to say.

10 comments:

  1. Oh I love this! It is perfect for the image. Life does have a way of creating debris.

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    1. Thank you so much Susie, and I agree life does have a way of creating debris.

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  2. I lived in TX and this does look like it. What an opening line and the connection of such a weather beaten land to your heart is a great metaphor. Well penned.

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    1. Thank you Margaret I am so glad you participated this week. :-)

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  3. Oh, WOW! "Your heart is a trailer park." I know EXACTLY how that six year old felt. I lived that kind of a childhood too, alcoholic and violent parents. (No wonder we chose lives of such determined peace.) That six year old is still in there but, thankfully, she (we) reached peaceful shores at last. A fantastic poem, Carrie and one I resonate with so completely I wish I had written it myself.

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    1. That means so very much to me that you would say that Sherry. I think there are many many out there that have memories like that lingering on the side lines.

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    2. You are so poetic, Carrie, the way you say things just make them come to life I think this is so beautiful.. keep sharing with us we all love it !

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  4. "Just another rainstorm away" - That really pulls this excellent poem together, Carrie. Also, love the quote you used.

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  5. So glad I found this one again. Amazing is it, not how this poem resonates with many (myself included) Fantastic work here lady.

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