Throwing Away

 Dear Reader,

I have got a box with dance tickets and programmes of places I had been earlier in my life.  It is great fun looking back and remembering my youth with these pieces.

Throwing Away

 

the letters,

those billets doux,

the photographs,

the dance programmes,

the theatre tickets,

the postcards,

is a formidable task,

and weeping is not forbidden.

 

Before discarding

these once precious things,

the proof of special moments

lived in earlier times,

memorize them all with care.

And afterwards, relive

this solitary, remembered road,

and weeping is not forbidden.

 

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With best wishes, Patricia