Valentines's 2000 1st Place Entry

Remembered Joy

Our love, our lives, just letters in blue ribbon
Shall I save them as a curiosity?
Mementos of a past and vibrant life
Memories alive inside my head

Shall I save them as a curiosity?
Does the reading bring those distant times to life?
Memories alive inside my head
Waiting to invade, unasked, my loneliness

Does the reading bring those distant times to life?
Days of joy and nights of passion linger
Waiting to invade, unasked, my loneliness
A drawer, once opened, hard to close again

Days of joy and nights of passion linger
Each time the faded bow becomes untied
A drawer, once opened, hard to close again
Longing for your voice, your searching touch

Each time the faded bow becomes untied
My pain becomes a living thing once more
Longing for your voice, your searching touch
I'm left, with so few words, to fill the void

My pain becomes a living thing once more
As memories once vivid start to fade
I'm left, with so few words, to fill the void
A wistful echoing, I love you still

As memories once vivid start to fade
I hold your letters to my trembling lips
A wistful echoing, I love you still
Remembered joy, held in now lonely hands

I hold your letters to my trembling lips
Mementos of a past and vibrant life
Remembered joy, held in now lonely hands
Our love, our lives, just letters in blue ribbon.

Vickie & Chad
Midustouch/Kestrel
January 2000

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Valentine's Day 2000 Poetry - Poetry Page - Callahan's Saloon