The Lane Is Quiet Now...

Seeing all the precious first-day-of-school photos

tugs at the strings of mom-hearts at the other end of school-days spectrum

Pinch Me!! Where did that seemingly-endless season slip?!

The lane is quiet now...

The lane is quiet now

No mother’s prayers flung aft

Her precious troop of scholars

No frantic antics, wept-laughed

The lane is quiet now

Save echoes, bittersweet

No toast and jam dashed after one

Who had no time to eat

No new-shoes-backpack joy

Or belly-butterflies

Or darling little girl and boy

Tugging at mom’s heart-ties

No watching that old clock

Dwindle the minutes till

‘Hurry, hurry!! You’ll miss the bus!’

Repeats its frenzied drill

That once-upon-a-time

Forever-long somehow

Unraveled into mist-kissed clime

The lane is quiet now

© Janet Martin

That once-upon-a-time

Forever-long somehow

Unraveled into mist-kissed clime

The lane is quiet now...

(the last first-day-of-school exactly 6 years ago now!)

The lane is quiet now

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