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Box of Memories




A treasure box in my hands I hold
 From my mother or so I was told
A friend had held it in storage all these years
Stashed away in a dusty garage shelf
 Till the day I became a mother myself
 Only then would I understand what it meant.
A box
Carved wood with a clasp of gold
A beautiful piece in itself to behold
But inside were treasures far beyond cost
Because it stored memories of her I thought I'd lost
Silk shoes, my first ever pair.
A lock of her golden waist length hair.
A glass box, holding my first baby teeth.
Her wedding rings and the earrings she wore
Even her wedding dress, which swathed the floor.
My first dancing slippers
And some of the clothes I wore as a nipper.
Photo albums of us together
Laughing, holidays on the beach
The gold heart- shaped locket
She wore round her neck
 Cards I'd bought, every year of her life,
The poem she wrote for the day
  I became a wife

 This box,with its contents so grand
Is all I have left of her
Held in awe in my shaking hand
The red rose ribbons tied round letters I wrote  
So many bundles she insisted she would keep
Reading them through made me weep
Her diaries, her books of poems
Photo's of Granddad and Nan, a family life
Pictures of her and dad as
man and wife.
The years of memories this box holds
This is her life in here,
Yet she is gone
Taken far too soon
And I am left here weeping in her room
She collected these items over the years
Knowing each one of them held a memory and a tear
A thought behind each item stored
But the finest treasure that I could see
Was the love shown in filling this box for me

24th June 2004

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