Student Poetry This Project WR245 More Home		Lost Child (A Sonnet) Rose Lefebvre We hate seeing your life falling apart, the seams barely hanging on by a thread. We desire to have a heart-to-heart and share with you our worries, fear and dread. We miss the child filled with love and hope whose laughter would melt any frozen heart; the life you’ve chosen is beyond our scope and it has torn this family apart. How can drugs and alcohol fill your life with more joy than love of family? Don’t you realize all it causes is strife? Please open your eyes to reality. The times when you take off and disappear and our thoughts fill with grim images of you creating so much worry and fear that our emotions are difficult to subdue. When you are here there is still no relief from this emotional merry-go-round, listening to your excuses in disbelief, crying about the drugs and alcohol we found. When the pain becomes more than we can bear photographs bring back the son that we miss, laughter and stories we sit and share recalling moments that once were filled with bliss. You do not seem to care about any one who love and care deeply for you, who worry that your life will come undone leading us graveside bidding our adieu. One day fledglings must spread their wings and fly into a window or into the sky. Rose Lefebvre has been writing poetry for over 37 years, only sharing it in the past 3 years. She won the top poetry prize, Best of Show, at the Oregon State Fair in 2003 and 2nd place in 2004. She has also written articles for a small city newspaper. She is a member of Chrysalis: Women writers and also Writers Club, both at Clackamas Community College. To read Rose's classroom poetry, please click the links below.
		Rose's Portfolio poetry can be read here. Previous             Next 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 Copyright © 2005 Rose Lefebvre All rights reserved. Spring Term 2005. Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, Oregon Web design by Doran Web Works.