English: Picture of a teddy bear with head turned slightly to the left. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Once I sat
Content, on your lap
Beaming up through my
Beaded eyes
Flowing love to you
My precious child
I enjoyed so
Our childhood games
The stories and the clothes
You adorned me with
The friends amongst us
All gathered there
In the warm afternoon
I thought this would last
Forever
Why ever not?
I would live a thousand lifetimes
In my stuffing and my cloth
For you
But you grew
Didn’t you?
You gave away childish things
You gave away me
Furry friend
Turned flotsam and jetsam
Or at least
That’s how it feels
While I sit silent
Squashed in the darkness
Of your cupboard
Abandoned and alone
Dreaming of the light of day
And the light of your eyes
Returned to me
(c) Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
Prompt from mindlovemisery -at http://mindlovemisery.wordpress.com
helenvalentina 
Awwww Helen this is so cute, I want to give him so many cuddles. I gave my massive My Little Pony collection to Isadora and I still have my favorite stuffed bunny my grandma gave me though he has seen better days lol
Thank you!! 🙂
Oh, this brought tears to my eyes. My daughters adore their bears still. I need to cherish every moment of them dragging them behind them everywhere they go. Time goes way too fast. Great work, Sis!!!!!
Thank you so much!! Childhood is a magical time!! 🙂 🙂
Now I’m feeling guilty!
Don’t feel guilty…we all grow up and leave our childhood toys behind… 🙂
Shhh! Don’t tell ANYONE, but I not only had a Teddy, I also had a fluffy blue rabbit with a white chest and tummy 🙂
Good on you!!! I had lots of teddy bears and such…and I am ashamed to admit I did abandon them as I grew!! 😦
I used to have a stuffed monkey when I was a kid. It was one of those old fashioned things that was filled with sawdust. Unfortunately when I hit teenage-hood it came in very useful as a substitute cricket ball and its head ended up disappearing down the neighbour’s chimney.
Ouch!!! I shall now spend most of the day trying not to think about that!! 🙂 🙂
This is just gorgeous, really touching. ‘But you grew, didn’t you’…ouch…perfect!
Thank you so much!! 🙂 🙂
Poor sweet teddy bear!
Exactly! Thank you so much!! 🙂
Sad verse but so touching
Thank you!! 🙂 🙂
A great subject for the prompt, and you pulled it off flawlessly! A wonderful write!
Thank you, so much appreciated!! 🙂 🙂
An excellent spin on personification and a very fine poem. Bravo!
Thanks so much!! 🙂 🙂
wonderful work Helen, the bear waits and will wait, eternally.
Exactly, teddy bears are loyalty personified! Thanks so much!! 🙂
This is beautifully done, and did make me more than a little sad/wistful for my own stuffed bear!
Thank you!! 🙂 🙂
This is lovely.
Thank you!! 🙂 🙂
I have so many toys from childhood stored in cupboard; I don’t remember the last time they saw the day light. Feel bad for them now..
A beautifully crafted poem and a lovely personification of the sweet teddy bear. 🙂
Thank you so much!!! 🙂 🙂
How sad….I think we humans stuff family in friends into a cupboard of neglect….great personification
Thanks so much!! 🙂 🙂
smiles…it was not too long back we found my old teddy bear from when i was a boy…a panda bear, white and black…orange eyes…we gave it to my son…so he got a second chance at life…very cool personification of the teddy bear….
Wonderful! the teddy bear has generational friends! Lovely postscript to my poem, thanks for sharing!! 🙂 🙂
Ha, brilliant and charming with it!
Thank you so much!! 🙂 🙂
I have to go get my teddy bear out of his dark closet now.
If I have saved one teddy bear from the closet then my work is done! Thank you!! 🙂 🙂
Lovely, lovely!
My first thought was to write about a Ted too. Talk about personification; when my children were small and I washed their fluffy toys, I used to feel extraordinarily guilty when I pegged them to the washing line by their ears… (I did think they might seek me out while I slept and gain some sort of awful revenge for the pain I had induced…)
Anna :o]
Thank you – wonderful postscript story to the poem! Much appreciated!! 🙂