Time Traveling

…written for Day #16, NaPoMo 2011…


Time Traveling

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tonight
careful hands
peel back cracked
and yellowed protectant
from dark and aging pages

soured
in long-ignored
dusty albums

my wife is liberating memories
life moments
immortalized

faces and places
call from another time

a beautiful young bride
a proud new husband

our sweet children
living
and not

family and friends
here and gone

other visuals
strangely vague
yet hauntingly familiar
draw me
spark warm recall

remembered laughter
tears gratefully less bitter

captured images
collect on our coffee table

so too
do insistent emotions
cascading one by one
and all together

time
the grand thief

who would steal
the treasures of our heart
who would hold hostage
the moments of our journey

beautifully arrested

deeply moved
tears well and glisten
stirred by heartfelt gratitude
for this proof of life

proof
of love

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rob kistner © 4.16.11

29 thoughts on “Time Traveling”

  1. Such images are among my most cherished possessions. You’ve written this so beautifully and so perfectly that I’m sure it has special meaning for each of your readers. I’m glad I’m one of them.

  2. Time is the biggest thief..looking at evidence of it passing can be sad..strange how only certain moments are captured but so much is remembered..Jae

  3. It is indeed, amazing how time runs away from us, and with it, our youthful days, and more, until we look at captured moments, that reminds us the treasures, we hold from yesterdays laughter

  4. What a beautiful offering. I particularly like your description of emotions:

    so too
    do insistent emotions
    cascading one by one
    and all together

    So very true….

  5. So beautifully written. “Time, the grand thief”. Yes. It is bittersweet to look back at those early years, our children’s shining faces………very poignant. I love this poem!

  6. Photo albums hold so much love within their pages. Now we are in the computer age, how many of us actually get our digital images developed and printed on paper to go into those beloved memory albums.

  7. Time…the greatest opponent. The one we all have to face. Yet there are ways around–photographs and other mementos of our times together, those special moments sometimes even thought eludes. Tender, carefully unwrapped, you bring this feeling to us in a beautiful way. Well done.

  8. A beautiful journey you and your lovely wife have traveled together. Sad about your son – they may be gone but never forgotten, and still counted among the ones we love.

    beautiful write.

    joanny

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