A Trip Down Memory Beach

Three states away I sit
This trip cost my mind, quite a bit
Even though my time here predates you
As with everything, it now has your touch too

These waves crashing heard you say "I do"
From the hotel porch down the road that was blue
The sand where I wrote "Lee + Kathy"
Our first vacation, I did to make you happy

We brought our daughter here at one year old
I drove all night, and we caught her first steps so bold
The sun just risen, and I couldn't say no
She had seen the ocean, and was dying to go

What a happy family we have always been
And I loved treating you, to a deserved vacation
But this place where I've come since my childhood
Now only holds memories, of you and I, and should

Reviews

[Marianne Rose]

Just as you say, a trip down memory lane- but this too is different than your earlier poems- it feels more accepting, enjoying the memories rather than being tortured by the. It's been a pleasure and interesting to see your writing evolve as I'm sure your feelings have also. This is a good piece of the good memories, something to be cherished and not put away because they are too painful.

[Teddybearlee]

As always, your words bring me momentary comfort, I truly appreciate that. I literally just got back from taking my daughter to the beach last night, and wrote this the night before, sitting out on the balcony of where we were staying...the trip was...every bit as rough on my emotionally as I imagined, especially when I did drive by the place we stayed when I proposed, I vacationed here with my cousins and grandmother between the ages of 10 and 16 probably, then when Kathy and I had been together for a few years, I was working on my struggling business, and always scared to take a vacation for financial reasons..but it was one of my promises to her after we had a "little" breakup before we were married, so, I kept my promise, and proposed to her as well on our first trip here. I also pretend it's where our daughter was conceived (even though I think technically the doctor said that happened a couple weeks earlier..lol, I just figured why not make it the most interesting vacation ever)...but we skipped the year my daughter was born, then we went as a family the next two, so, needless to say, the memories of myself being there with my wife outweigh the memories of my childhood there...but it's a familiar area, a peaceful beach, and I always tell myself I'm going to get a beachhouse there one day.