Pages of My Mind
Recollections flutter
Behind my eyes
Like autumn leaves
Scattered by the wind.
Dreams send out tentacles
Into time long past
Calling memories up from
Obscurity into light.
A phantom path leads back
Into the dusty library
Of forgotten treasures
Where there’s an Easter party
With a magician
Who pulls out coins from
Our hair and ears.
Another page reveals
A sudden rainstorm and
Laughter of two lovers
Picnicking on the slope
Of green grass under a bridge.
I see a sleepy newborn
At his mother’s breast
And, later, taking
Those wobbly first steps.
There’s our fiftieth anniversary
With all the children
And grandchildren gathered,
And Great Grandma’s
Ninetieth birthday party
With relatives from everywhere.
I see happy days at golden beaches,
Trips to exotic, faraway places,
And so much more.
No pages are left that tell
Of the sad or unhappy.
Time has erased those or left
The leaves dimmed and faded.
At the shorter end of life
It’s the joyous memories
I hold dear, as I reach back
Into the hidden recesses,
And open the pages of my mind.
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