Broken dreams
Before There Was Love – 1989
I dreamed a dream…
A life where I was happy.
I loved and was loved.
A gentle lover held my hand
And showed me the way to joy.
Our love gave us precious treasure,
The gift of sweet laughter,
The patter of tiny feet…
Myself, a mother looking on…
My lover, a father smily gently…
Our children dancing joyfully about him.
I dreamed a dream…
A broken dream I couldn’t make true.
In waking truth I am alone.
The lover who held my hand
Led me only to pain.
My love returned no treasure…
Only pain and regret,
Bewilderment and betrayal…
Only the sound of retreating steps…
Myself, a woman alone, looking on…
My lover, a fading shadow, deeping pain…
Our children a broken dream,
Cutting deep as a knife in the night.
© 20 August 2014, by D. Denise Dianaty, published in The New Anthology of American Poets (c.1995) and in My Life In Poetry (published with KDP, January 2015). All the images following are original photography by D. Denise Dianaty, taken 01 March 2020. This is my submission to the #monomad challenge by @monochromes.
Broken Remains
This is an abandoned home near Buies Creek, North Carolina. From the detritus of children's toys scattered everywhere at the site… in every room… in every tumbledown structure on the grounds… in all the open yard spaces… children's forgotten lives on display… No one with children moves out and leaves behind all their toys under auspicious circumstances. Everything about this site made my heart hurt.
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Hi @momzillamc. A lovely dream poem I enjoyed. But the abandoned home is truly a mystery. Looks like it was once a beautiful brick home outside. Maybe there was a raging fire that destroyed the home. Then the owners never returned and decided to relocate elsewhere. To leave toys behind, usually children don't do that unless they are determined ruined.
Won't know what happened to the home unless it's researched. Lovely story and pictures to present with this ruined home that was never restored.
Thanks for sharing this story of the home and your poem. Have a great day and a fabulous week ahead. Take care.
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There did not seem to have been a fire in the house. It looks as if it was just abandoned with everything left behind. Then, at some point afterward, someone came in and ransacked the place for anything of value, including ripping the pipes and wiring out of the walls for the copper.
So sad to hear that @momzillanc. I hate vandalism of any kind. No sense in ransacking a house that empty. I understand people always looking for something free they don't own or work for. Hope the family has long moved on to something their lives were destined to enjoy.
The way the house was just abandoned doesn't seem like the family would have moved on happily. No one leaves behind all their children's clothes and toys for happy reasons. There were at least two children's toys left behind – there were boy's toys and girl's toys in detritus.
And, there's a feeling in the place… a weight of sadness and loss about it all, especially inside the house. The structure and the grounds are littered with children's toys and belongings. There was also an abandoned dog pen and rabbit hutch. And, there was a storage building full of stuff left behind that had also been tumbled and ransacked.
Oh my goodness. So sad. But you know what, we'll never know what happened. The thing I do know is that vagrants and homeless people sometimes live in places like that. I once knew a situation such as that.
But the strange thing is the toys left behind. That's under suspicious circumstances there. Life circumstances can be so unnerving sometimes. I just don't want to think the worse of what could have happened to the family.
Thanks for your engagement. Have a good day.
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