Week 14: Lost & Found -- Griffin
Submitted by ggevalt on January 23, 2007 - 10:00.
I’m lost!
By Mary Griffin
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10
Everything’s fine
No need to stare
No need to worry
No need to care.
The creamy glint
Of fluorescent light
On short gray ticking
And linoleum white.
What two moments before,
Was achingly bland,
Has left, chased by tears
And a quick-shaking hand.
In all perceived panic,
My doldrums have fled,
My heart skips a beat,
And pounds in my head.
The store becomes blurred
My mind turned and tossed.
My mother is missing,
Her daughter is lost!
Beginning to walk,
I lift my feet faster,
Now close to running
I nearly run past her.
She’s there with her bags,
Between thickset aisles,
She sees my excitement.
Bemused, she smiles.
