Common Things
They surround us with a stale familiarity
so undisguised, we may as well be blind.
Yet they fill the storeroom of our lives
and experiences that add and continue
to add to the inventory of consciousness –
of who we are, where we’ve been, what we’ve done.
Beneath a pile of years are memories that
once filled our childhood and growing years.
Like knowledge, we draw from them.
They are the fallen stones in our life’s wall;
they need to be put back to keep the wall
intact, strong, useful and complete.
Like a bridge memory is always shrinking
above rushing currents of time. The past,
is an accumulation of tenuous memories
no more substantial than afternoon shadows.
Copyright © Maurice Rigoler | Year Posted 2023
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