It's In The Card.................................repost

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It's In The Card.................................repost

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0 posted 2001-07-10 11:14 AM

It's In The Card

Nine years old now, it sits out all the time
a pleasant little card, one that is just mine,
a china doll on a seat, heirloom silk replete
blackest hair and china shy-blue eyes
on wicker stool, you can hear her sigh

the card front's words, denoting memories
a mother's recollection of echoes in the eve
now she calls me special, like she did back then
inside the card I'm her little girl
no matter where, no matter when

and in her Mom-scrawl, a running hand
she notes I'll never realize [she still commands]
how very proud she always was
of me, her firstborn, and it gives me pause
nine years gone, and these words still cause

a tear.

Nine years old now, it sits out all the time
a pleasant little card, one that is just mine.

©Karilea Rilling Jungel
22 September, 2000

Sending Birthday wishes, Mom.
Jacqueline Sue Givens Rilling
7-10-31 - 11-18-92

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