LW Poetry

This feature showcases original poems by members of the Creative Writers Club of Leisure World and other GRF members.

That Old Feeling

Children, job, friends, lovers, I have a good life now But I ache for the missing pieces I would disavow I bear always within me my 16-year-old self Ever painful memories of being left on the shelf All subsequent acceptance through the long years Does nothing to wash away bitter teen tears We think we can outrun that adolescent angst But it has left its imprint on our data banks Recllections will rise on our happiest day To stir the old feelings we thought we buried away I have a good life, but comes that memory bomb I must live with the fact that I missed senior prom Toby Richman Mutual 7