Warm meals
Clean sheets
Floors mopped and swept
Carpets vacuumed daily
Fresh clothes in the closet
Folded
Without request
Snacks on the table
Chips in the cabinet
Healthy fruit waiting to be chosen in the fridge
A reminder to stay out of trouble
A call to come on home
Is your homework done?
What about your grades?
Advised to always work hard
Pick up your dirty clothes
Wash the dishes
Sweep up the dust
No eating in the bedroom
Use a napkin
Wake up early
No lazy bones
What do you want to be?
Who are you going to be?
Did you make a plan?
Did you follow through?
Will you be on time?
Did you feed yourself?
Can you feed yourself?
Gentle reminders
Along the way
To a long commute
Here and there
Through the city streets
Avoiding traffic
Paying the toll
Of growing up
And coming home
To adulthood
About the Creator
Kris Reed
I’m supposed to say something special about myself here.
I guess I’m a woman by now.
From Chicago.
Living the mom life, it’s the best life that works for me.
I write.
I hope I’m good.
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181 Keeping Watch
Each day she watched through her window. Watched? Perhaps an exaggeration: a monochromatic nuclear aftermath remaining of the world, blurring into a blindness--loss of contrast and depth of field. Achromatic aberrations displayed a waste-scape stratified in grays.
By Gerard DiLeo5 days ago in Fiction
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