Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
I am waiting for you
To come back.
To grab hold
And place me
Against your forehead,
As you adjust the strap.
I am waiting
For you
To return
From where you’d left me
Behind
Or forgot
I might yearn
To be perched
On your brow
Holding firm
Against burn.
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🙂 Perfect response. 🙂
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A very moving poem and photo, Na’ama.
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Thank you, Amy! I saw that purple hat hanging on that branch and I had to take a photo of it. Made me wonder already then what had happened, whose it was, why it was left, will they come back …
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I also wonder about these types of things. Will someone come back? I’m a person who goes back and searches even if I think I’m unlikely to find the thing I’m looking for, as I’ve often found things I could well be expected not to find. 🙂
janet
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I know, Janet! So true! I probably would go back, too, if it were my thing that I’d misplaced or left behind.
When I saw that hat, hanging this way on a pine branch in the middle of the park, I wondered: Did someone forget it there that way? Did someone find it and hang it so it is more visible to whomever is searching? Did someone leave it there on purpose? If so, why? Will anyone come back for it?
There was a story in that photo when I took it in the summer. And the prompt reminded me of it … and the rest if post-history … 😉
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I wonder about single shoes. How does someone lose one shoe and not know it? 😳
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Yep. And one time I saw a crutch, and I wondered – was the person who came on crutches, healed mid-way in the park and walked on home without needing a crutch? Did they get a ride on someone’s mobility scooter? Did they get ill and 911 was called and took them away on a stretcher, leaving the crutch behind?
I hope it is the first. I wonder if its the second. I worry it’s the third …
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That IS a weird one!
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Yep. You should see what the New York Transit Authority say they’d found forgotten on the Subway!
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I can only imagine!
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