David Brown Poet Couplet

Fairy Tale's End

After years, you sent your giant round
to collect the memories you'd forgotten
he rooted round, until he'd found
each thing that showed you'd ever been

They filled the basement and the yard
the cupboards, closets and each room
each nook and cranny held a shard;
they lay like treasures in a tomb 

The small, sad pile of smiles and laughter
went on the seat of his great cart
the sacks of sorrow were loaded after
in the back with other broken hearts

?I watched him load each piece with care,
had we taken as much care as he?
in the making, was each truly shared,
in the taking, were they truly free? 

His cart groaned underneath the weight
as it slowly rolled down memory lane
like a pirate's ship with pieces of eight,
sailing across the Spanish Main

The plunder's someone's recollections
no hoard of gold lies in the hold,
as it sails away, this last connection
there are no more stories to be told

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