Brittany Zedalis- A Poem

Flashbacks

I close my eyes...

And I'm eight years old

again, with you by my

side, while we stroll

by the ocean late one

night.

I'm twelve years old

again, with your

constant reassurance that

high school would be

okay.

I'm eighteen years old

again, hearing of your 

dizziness and your

brain tumor with no

cure.

I'm twenty one years old

now, kneeling by your 

grave, hoping to have

been the daughter you

deserved.

Brittany Zedalis is a married 21 year old poet/college junior studying to be an elementary teacher at Francis Marion University. She has had poems published in several journals online and in print.