The Album
(Lyric to Gymnopedie No 1 by Erik Satie)
I open the album I'd long forgotten
and the old photos draw me slowly in
I feel my childhood self intensely
so innocent, so hopeful, in youthful skin
My heart squeezes tight with tenderness
compassion swells for who I was then
I feel a surge of sweetness so painful
to be back with her once again
As an adult, I'm grateful to have been her
I sit with her in quiet gentle melancholy
Life turned out differently from imagined -
I ask myself, is she disappointed with me?
Copyright © Julie Draper | Year Posted 2022
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