Starting Over

 

Linking up today with Mama Kat's for her weekly "Writer's Workshop".   The rules are simple.  Just pick your prompt, write, and link up.  I picked number 4.  A poem about starting over.  Hope to see you there!

This weeks prompts:

1.) Write about a time you got in BIG trouble as a kid.
2.) Not your mother's daughter...how do you parent differently than your mother did? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
3.) Photo Story: Share photos of your most recent trip to the beach (maybe an excuse to go!).
4.) Write a poem about starting over.
5.) Your top 10 Summer Don'ts.

Starting Over
by Patricia A. Pitterle

The baby

Just learning to walk

Takes one step

And then another.

Toddling out

Across the floor

I hold my breath

As she stumbles and falls

I help her up,

Stand her steady,

Step away,

And she

Starts over,

Once again.

The child

Starts to run

In her first event

At the school track meet.

On your mark,

Get set,

Go.

She is off!

Running like the wind

Down the track.

Every other young woman

Speeding up and soon,

Passing her by.

I hold my breath

As she continues

On the path,

Traveling the distance

And arriving home,

At last.

She may be in

The back of the pack,

But she is ready

To start over

And try again.

A woman,

Standing in her room,

Staring in her mirror

At the person she has become.

There are things

She would change,

If only she could.

Decisions she would

Do over.

Choices, she hopes,

And prays

She will never

Have to make again.

And yet,

She knows in her heart

The lesson Life has taught;

We can’t change our past,

But there is always today,

To transform our tomorrows

Into what

We would like them to be.

Our life might not end up

Quite the way

We dreamed it would;

But any one of us,

Every,

Single,

One of us,

Can start over,

Today,

And change

Who we will yet

Become.

I have learned

To love

The possibilities

And potentials of

Starting over.