The Lane Is Quiet Now...

Seeing all the precious first-day-of-school photostugs at the strings of mom-hearts at the other end of school-days spectrumPinch Me!! Where did that seemingly-endless season slip?!The lane is quiet now... The lane is quiet nowNo mother’s prayers flung aftHer precious troop of scholarsNo frantic antics, wept-laughed The lane is quiet nowSave echoes, bittersweetNo toast and jam dashed after oneWho had no time to eat No new-shoes-backpack joyOr belly-butterfliesOr darling little girl and boyTugging at mom’s heart-ties No watching that old clockDwindle the minutes till‘Hurry, hurry!! You’ll miss the bus!’Repeats its frenzied drill That once-upon-a-timeForever-long somehowUnraveled into mist-kissed climeThe lane is quiet now © Janet Martin That once-upon-a-timeForever-long somehowUnraveled into mist-kissed climeThe lane is quiet now... (the last first-day-of-school exactly 6 years ago now!) The lane is quiet nowsave cricket tweet-tweet-tweet...