I'm taking a picture to show my mom

working with High School students brings me more joy than I could ever express.

 

“D, you got your cool points back when you kicked the SUV in four wheel drive and drove up the snow hill behind the school.”

We got to relive a piece of our childhoods as we pushed open the doors and ran into the snow.

Remembering what the terrain was like without the white mounds covering the ground.

The last time my feet touched this soil they were so tiny.

Now my much larger feet are trampling all over it.

Grass patches were here, dirt spread out over there.

That spot over there was where Rebekkah fell running the mile.

The swings were the place we use to fly.

I wish we could have stayed all day, but I do not blame D for being nervous.

After all, what would she say,

‘Sorry officer these kids just wanted some nostalgia, a piece of their childhoods, you understand the need for a trip down memory lane?’

Childhood memories packaged up just 11 miles away.

Robbed from our general thoughts and kept only a few towns over.

Preoccupied with the fight of our lives we need to live today. 

What a different life it would have been.

The truck starts to roll out.

We all feel the adrenaline still pumping in our legs, our arms, our veins.

“Kevin, when we are old enough, we will move back here and do crazy things!”

Reviews

[B. Lapinski]

HMMMM.sweet sweet words....thank you

[SweetPeachesAlways]

The swings were the place we use to fly. - Wow, I remember that!
"Kevin, when we are old enough, we will move back here and do crazy things!" - But you never do...

What a great write...nostalgic, melancholy, beautiful, poignant, descriptive, stimulating! All of the really good emotions that you want to find in something to read! Thank you for sharing this...

[Requiem]

This reminds me of the school I went to for grades 4-6. When I was a senior it was basically considered a firetrap and i went back to that place and just wandered the grounds. From the basketball court to the swing sets.

[mattavelli]

This is great!
It made me think of my elementary school. I was there a few weeks ago. Somebody shrank it. :)
Have fun

[Mark Pearce]

Lots of snapshot imagery and energy here.

I'm glad that you set the stage for us with the "High School" comment. I may have been swimming in grease otherwise.

[Leah Maldonado]

Childhood memories packaged up just 11 miles away.

really great line. I liked the color change it was interesting, at first I thought it was just a way to symbolize a conversation without using proper punctuation but nope. I liked this alot, it sounds like a story could from it too even though its more a poem...you could go further.
Leah