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"
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