M =The memory box

A mass of faded photographs

Beige stained cards

Patented by time

Memories

Flowing

With lifetimes seconds

No embrace, no smile

A crime

Fraying ribbons

Hold your inscriptions

Dusted mildew scars the key

Everything I'am you've shaped

Is all that's left to hold in me

Gently opening your wallet

Remembering our divide

A daughter growing up

Rapt in adolescent pride

No goodbyes, no final kiss

No absolution, no compromise

An average day until you fell

In its wake

Forever-blackened skies

You always seemed invincible

Your arms

The safest place on earth

Full of fun and fairness

Ability and mirth

As I ply the sections back

Missing-you severs like a blade

My childhood poems, letters

Stickmen scribbles

All kept and prized

Since they were made

Tears there only spoil

Each time I return here

To the momentos

That I treasure

Several times a year

Your eyes in pictures never changing

I wonder if you're familiar with my smile

No long lined by immaturity

But impassioned free from guile

The years have amplified horizons

And I'm fair to someone just like me

Histories tumbling full circle

And has opened eyes sightless to see

Refolding every worn out crease

Each memory cherished until the last

A ever within reach

Intensity

Of a forever-absent past

I can simply wish that my memories

Are the only tainted by life's lament

Hope that life's full sphere is through

And no more tears of regret are spent

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