Box of Memories

My eyes fall on my dusty box of memories it holds the eternal offerings from my heart shared with broken-hearted lovers these fragments of time like fossils from another age are taken from this box to reveal themselves like stars hidden behind yesterday's passing skies where wishes left to silent flight stargazing through changing times still, haunt when plucked roses fell to earth and parting sadness was a companion with each picture seen my heart pauses to remember the last moment of tenderness the last moment of heartache that cry watercolored tears falling endlessly into my box where my memories are kept a reminder of another world when life and love were young and vibrant and passion was a fruit to create memories with