Cedar Chest of Memories

Music fills the air, as the radio plays Letting go of memories, bringing back forgotten faces Daddy took that photograph...a captured you, a smiling trace A magic moment....a magic day... You gave me your cameo, that birthday in May... There was joy in your face, while I posed dressed in lace... Oh, yes.... here is that dress! let me carefully place Upon the bedspread....Mom,...are you watching today?.... The dress,.. still so lovely, ....we picked it together... A bow in the back...and embroidery on the hem... A sweetheart neckline, and a small rose on the breast.. The color of a pale sky...soft as a feather... I wore this cameo.....now I wear it again.... As I fold this sweet memory,....back in the chest.... for Constance's contest "Italian Sonnet"