Reflections Of a Life Once Lived...... posted 7/27/2009 3:47:00 AM | 3 kudos what's this?     report abuse

ragtopcookie

On sunday...i went up to my dads house to see my mom one last time before she leaves to go back down south......My moms been staying at my brothers house all week for her visit there....and my sister is staying with her husband at his brothers house.....When i go to see my dad.....i always like to leave early...so i can watch the sun come up.....I think that deep down inside.....ive always been born with a traveling bone.....even though ive not been very many places before.....its always nice to hit the road......normally...when i get to my dads house...hes in bed.....so i let myself in...and make the coffee...and read my paper......but this time...hes up and moving......sitting at the dinning room table when i get there.....he lives out in the country...seven miles out of town....and since him and mom split up.....weve been wanting him to sell his house and move up closer to my brother......or at least into town.....but hes been out in the country for 25 years now....and he likes it......but the place is getting too much for him to handel all alone out there.....and his health is not good.....so when i get there....we talk abit.....and he asks me to drive him into town......hes heard that the house i grew up in was for sale....and he wants to go by and take a look.....so we drive into town...and sure enough...the house looks empty.....but theres a truck in the drive way.....so i go up and knock at the door....and some guy answers.....hes inside doing some work.....I ask him if its ok that we come in and take a look.....and hes ok with it.....so i go back to my car...and help my dad to the front door.....as soon as we step inside.....all these memories of a life once lived come flooding back to me......its as if this old house has been waiting all these years for me to come back.....i leave my dad and the owner talking as i walk from room to room.....i could have closed my eyes and made a drawing of the inside of this house.....i remember it so well.....we lived there from when i first could remember...till we moved across town into another house where i finished growing up.....all my hopes and dreams were made in this house.....from the run down garage in the back yard......where my girlfriend and sister and me got locked inside...and couldnt get the door open.....so i took a board and busted the glass window in the door....slide down that board and up to the house to let my mom know they were still trapped inside....i ripped a eight inch gash in my left leg from the glass left in that window... i still carry that scar.....to the kitchen where i remember mom cooking our meals.....to the bedroom that me and my older brother once shared....to the hallway that i set up my orange hot wheels track and raced my cars around the wide ovals powered by the supercharger that shot them around the track..to the family room where us kids use to watch hours of tv sitting side by side by side in our small wooden rocking chairs....to the corner where are christmas tree always stood..... by the time our visit was thru...i was almost in tears....for this was the place i once grew up in.....safe from the outside world.....without a care in the world.....some say you cant go back.....that once gone....cannot be relived.....for some...that might be true.....but that short hour or so i spent walking around my childhood home.....i remembered a life once lived......where i was happy........cookie

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