So Many Yesterdays

I saw a board,

lying flat with

a nail sticking up

through it.

I ran, barefoot,

to jump over it.

I jumped right on the nail.
it came up through my foot ,

just above and between

the little and second toe.

I screamed.

Grandpa came running,

he grabbed the board,

and yanked the nail out.

He soaked my foot in "Sheep Dip".

Wasn't that just yesterday?

It was my birthday,

Millie Koentop was

handing our birthday cards

at school, she called them invitations.

I didn't get one.

But I did get to

ring the school bell, because

it was my birthday.

Wasn't that just yesterday?

Joey Meinsinger, a Senior,

asked me to the school dance.

My first "real date".

I wore a yellow, rabbit hair sweater.

Joey wore a navy blue suit.

When we danced,

my sweater shed all over his blue suit.

Wasn't that just yesterday?

All the kids were talking

on the school bus.

We were at war in Korea.

Jerry Sleater and Leon Turner

shook hands.

Jerry said "Army",

Leon said "Air Corps".

Wasn't that just yesterday?

My girl friends and I

decided to write to the boys in Korea.

I wrote to Wanda's brother, Russell.

Wanda wrote to Dodie's uncle, Jr.

Dodie wrote to my cousin, Chuck.

Wasn't that just Yesterday?

Russell came home on leave,

he brought me gifts from Japan.

He went back to his ship

in Newport, Rhode Island.

He sent me money so

I could join him there and get married.

Wasn't that just yesterday?

Russell was on a ship

in the Mediterranean Sea.

In Fall River, Massachusetts,

I gave birth to a baby boy.

I called him Doug.

Wasn't that just yesterday?

We were assigned to Shore Duty

in Monterey, California.

Russell cheated on me.
I came home to Mama. we were divorced.

Doug and I were living in wenatchee.

I met Jerry, we married.

Wasn't that just yesterday?

Doug was invited to church.

Jerry and I decided to go also.

I did not lead my son to Jesus,

My son led me back to Him.

Wasn't that just yesterday?

My Father died of Cancer.

Eleven years later,

my Mother died of Alzheimer's.

I became an orphan.

Wasn't that just yesterday?

A few months ago

I turned seventy six.

It seems like yesterday,

so many yesterdays.
I can't wait for tomorrow!