Six Years and...Revised

Six Years and…

By Maureen Ucles

Six years and a half—

Could have sworn 

Just yesterday

We were workin’

Bouncing ideas

Free flowin’

Oh no!

Step around, jump, skip

Whatever you can

Don’t step

on that crack

Break your mamma’s back

Or my heart

Whichever comes first…

Six years and a half

Can’t remember it all

Can never go back

I just wanna

Slow down… time

Tick-toc  tick-toc

You could never

Stop time

Nor can I

sigh

Times a changing

With more

TIC TOC TIC TOC

TIC TOC TIC TOC

Sounds ‘a rackin’ my brain

Feel a little convoluted

Little insane

Just can’t see it

My way

No way

Can’t play

To jail

Set sail

On your way

out

Six years and a half

Running

Always, always

Running out of…

Never ever

Walking, slowing

down

Nope it’s me

Me knowing

BOOM!

You’re gone

No more…

Fun in the Sun

Belly laughter

Bursting at the seams

Borrowed time

On clearance

Now gone-

Past layaway

Cash register

Checked out

Six years and counting

Why does it have to end…

this way?

Hard

So very hard

To say

Goodbye and

Set the past free

What it can be

What it was

Now

Without me

Just gone, gone, gone

Cold chills

Flowing

Uphill

In my veins

Not so easy

With my poor lungs

Tired of breathing

Still wheezing

Allergies

Asthma

Such a catastrophe

Am I

Without ya

Six years and a half

Don’t really have the Math

To compute

This craziness

Insanity… times three

Why do you have to flee?

No sense

Is this making

And me?

Nope, not faking

Cannot seem to awake

From this nightmare

I am ‘a livin

Six years and a half

Done gone

Like cold coffee

Down the drain

With those grinds

Six stinkin’ years

No more

And

a half

To be continued