Hide and Seek (in the memory of my late father)

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Blogging from A to Z [April 2015]

 

 

 

 

 

A vast green campus

of several historic structures

amidst a thick pine forest

 

The heritage power station

- your workplace

my childhood home

 

those endless mazes

of cobbled corridors

stone walls

 

where my little giggles

and Jackie's* mild barking

would echo for hours

 

we would run around

playing Hide & Seek

 

till you would call out

for me and him

and before the echo of your voice died

we would come

running to you

 

Now I know

you will never call out

my name again

Jackie is long gone

 

Hope you meet him up there

and his coat is still shinier

than my hair

 

This time you both

have gone hiding

and I seek you

over and over again.

 

*Jackie was our German Shepherd, who had come to our home before I was born, was a constant companion, almost a sibling during my childhood. He passed away while I was still a child.