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Open Poetry #26

A Box of Memories

Aya
Junior Member

since 2003-03-25

Posts 42
New Zealand

0 posted 2003-05-15 03:46 PM

There is a box of memories
That i just happend to find
In the darkest corner of my mothers closet
Stuff of all kinds

Sitting there stearing at the box
I started thinking of many yesterdays that had past
My childhood, my adolecence and teen years too
It brough tears to my eyes and made me a bit blue

I started looking through the box
The memories of old
And found an old get well card
That my best friend gave me when i was sick with a cold

I kept on looking and came across an old photo
Of my brother and me
when i was 2 years old
He was only three
I gave slight giggle
Of how my brother dumped sand down my diper

I keep on digging through the box of old
And came across a photo of my decesed grandmother
When it came to baking gingerbread men
She was the very best

I dried a tear from my eye
And picked up a paper book
It was a story that i had writen
Whilst i was at school

I started to flip through it
Though there was only sevral pages
It was about a cat who sat on a mat
And a mouse who lived in a cage

I put it to the side,
With all the other stuff
And took out next a photo of my mother
Who was standing with my oldest brother

She is no longer with us
She died of cancer when i was just 14
I started to cry a lot harder now
And asking god who took her, why

I missed my mother ever so much,
It was hard to say goodbye
It was hard to not look at that photo
And wonder how she made it,
Without tears falling from her eyes

Placing the photo next to me
I continued to look through the box
I pulled out a picture that i drew of my brother
My father, mother and my dream pet, a fox

It brought a little smile to my face
Of how it used to be
Being at kindy at the age of three
And talking to the people who were friends with me

Now im getting closer
To the photos of days gone by
I pick one up and look at it
It was my father and i gave a small sigh

He was carrying me on his shoulders
How i loved those times
I thought that i was the king of the world
And I the king deep in his heart

I taking out another few photos
Of my brothers at the playground
They were all swinging on swings
While i was crying on the ground

I had fallen off the swing
And hurt myself not bad at all
But as you know when you are 5 years old
The whole world seems to end because of one small fall

I got to the last item
That was deep in the box below
It wasnt like the rest of them
It was a pendent that my mother used to own

She must have forgotten about it
After all these years
And so she just left it in this box
I picked it up and from my eyes fell tears

I looked at it and realized
That it was a locket made of silver
Shaped in a heart with one amathist stone
With writing on the back

On the back of it, it read
"Forever in my heart you will stay"
It was given to my mother for her wedding present
The love of my parents means a lot to me in all ways

I started to place the things back into the box
Passing another glance at the photo of mom
I kissed the photo and wished i could see her once more
And thank her for everything she has done

As i finished placing the last bits
Into the box itself
A deep voice came up behind me and asked
What was wrong?

I looked behind and saw my brother
He was holding his arms out to me
I stood up and ran to him
And told him that our mother is finally free

He looked at me with a strange look
And huged me tight
He told me that our mother will always be with us
Just not in plain sight

I know what he was saying
I have heard it all before
But hearing it from him
Meant alot to me and touched my heart like never before

We let go of each other
And i said that i better put the things away
As we left i clutched my mothers locket
And i wear it now to remember her always.

[This message has been edited by Aya (05-15-2003 03:56 PM).]

QjQ
Member Elite

since 2003-04-18

Posts 3756
U.S.A.

1 posted 2003-05-15 03:58 PM

very nicely written

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