Remembered in Silence

The Writing Cooperative and Chalkboard Magnet Poetry Prompt

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Old-age approaches quickly
When children pass.

Ripening fruit swept away.
So much effort
gone.
So much spinning
wasted.

I try to imagine what it is to have
birthdays adding onto each other.
I try to imagine
hope.
I try to imagine
tomorrow.

Laughter remembered in silence.
Empty rooms echo solitude.

Parents waiting,
Unconsciously,
For another,
Or for the first to re-emerge.

Poems used: Guérin Asante, Ripening; antoinette nevitt, The Web; Rhonda Marrone, Aging