REFLECTION

AS I SIT IN SOMBER SILENCE
MEMORIES FLASH THROUGH MY MIND
OF TIMES WHEN I WAS JUST A KID
OH WHAT A CAREFREE TIME..
THOSE DAYS OF SIMPLE LIVING
WHILE IN BOAT I DID ROAM
OUT ON THE MIGHTY OCEAN
WHERE THE WAVES WERE FULL OF FOAM.
OH HOW I LOVED THOSE SUMMER DAYS WITH MY GRANDDAD AT MY SIDE
AS WITH JIGGER,TRAWL NETS AND LOBSTER POTS
OUR WINTER FOOD WE SUPPLIED.
WE'D PULL ASHORE AND LIGHT A FIRE AND BOIL THE KETTLE TOO
AND HAVE A LUNCH AND TAKE A NAP
OR PICK BERRIES AS IN ABUNDANCE THEY GREW.
THEN BACK HOME WE'D GO TO SPLIT THE FISH
AND PUT IT OUT TO DRY
COVERED WITH SALT TO PRESERVE IT WELL,
OR WE PICKLED HERRING TO EAT BY AND BY.
THEN ON THE DAYS WHEN THE SEA WAS ROUGH
OR FOG SHROUDED THE SHORE
WE STAYED AT HOME AND SCYTHED THE GRASS , TENDED VEGETABLE GARDENS OR MENDED THE NETS....THERE ALWAYS WAS A CHORE.
THERE WAS WORK TO DO FROM DAWN TO DUSK
FROM SPLITTING WOOD AND CLEAVING SPLITS TO FEEDING AND GROOMING THE HORSE.
NO INDOOR FAUCETS DID WE HAVE
OUR WATER CAME FROM A WELL
WATER SO SWEET AND COLD, AS COULD BE...
GEE THOSE DAYS BACK THEN WERE SWELL!!
BUT YEARS HAVE PASSED...AS YEARS WILL DO
THE SIMPLE LIFE IS NO MORE.
BUT IT LIVES WITHIN MY MEMORY
WHERE THOUGHTS OF CHILDHOOD DAYS ARE STORED.
Patricia Healey
August 18, 2013
  Submitted By: Patricia Healey