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Alone On a Desert Island.

November 28, 2018
By CharlotteMiller SILVER, Winston Salem, North Carolina
CharlotteMiller SILVER, Winston Salem, North Carolina
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I miss the before

I miss the soft kisses of the rain

I miss the laughter in the before

I miss the love that I adored


Before I was on the desert island

Alone


Never held onto

How the rain falled


Never noticed

How much we laughed


Never valued

The love of others


Before I was on the desert island

Alone


Now looking back

To the before


I cannot remember

My mother’s laugh


I can remember

Her face, her voice

But her laugh is forever gone

Like footprints in the sand


I wish I could

Go back to the before


Before I was on the desert island

Alone


The sun can rise a thousand times


The tide can come and go


The memories can fade


But my will

Will forever grow

To go back to the before

 

Before I was on the island

Alone


In the distance

I see the before


I try to swim across the sea

But failure is my only company


I realize I cannot go

Back to the before


I am stuck on this island

Alone


The author's comments:

I wrote this piece to comply with my teacher's writing prompt, "Stuck on a Desert Island". Most people would list all the things that they would carry with them, or how they would escape. However, I took the prompt and changed it around, I wrote a poem about the speaker, for whatever the reason is stuck on a desert island (representing the present). The speaker wants to go back the the before (or the past) to hold onto all the memories that he has forgotten over the years of being on the "Island". I know that this poem ends on a sad note, but it carries a meaningful message, you can't change the past, and you can't go back, you just have to enjoy the present. That is what the speaker needs to realize. The speaker needs to move on.


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