REMINISCENCE

mix media on canvas

36" x 36"

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Hidden Memories

I packed you away,

In a little cardboard box

Hidden under my bed

And you fit most perfectly,

Just that way,

Hidden from view…

…Yet always silently there…

I hid you-

You and your smiles,

Your gifts, and memories…

Everything about you.

Because I couldn’t take it…

I couldn’t take you anymore.

It hurt too much

So stay hidden in your cardboard box,

And perhaps you’ll fade…

…

Why kid myself?

I know you’re there…

I can feel your contents drawing me in

Drawing me closer to you.

But some memories haunt me-

Memories of you…

Of ‘us’.

You rattle in your confined space

Singing in the night,

Pleading to me as I dream

To open you up, and look inside…

But I can’t do that… I won’t…

And slowly your song fades…

For there are other songs…

Other singers

Those who dream with me.