Author's Note: This is a poem from the perspective of a mother, about her daughter who has run away from home. The parts in normal font are in the past tense and the parts in itallics are present tense. A line signifies a new stanza.
Hope you enjoy it!
1...2...3...
The cheeky cries of "You'll never find me!"
We were in the garden, playing hide and seek.
I allow another tear to fall down my cheek.
4...5...6...
I heard a plant pot smash; you were up to your old tricks.
You were desperate to hide and didn't care what you broke.
Whether it was a window or my heart, to you it was only a joke.
7...8...9...
I loved playing with you, we had such a great time.
You had fun too; it was your favourite game to play!
Perhaps that's the reason why you ran away.
It's only now, as I reach number 10,
That I hear those same words again:
"You'll never find me Mum, I'm far too good for you."
It's fourteen years later, and those words are still true.
Please! I need your comments more than ever because I want to enter this in a competition, and I'm not sure whether to rewrite it or change it, or submit another poem, soooo please drop me your thoughts
