Drewp

Frozen Memory.

Soft, unspoken, a heartbreaking token
found, lain undiscovered from all but me
preserved in dust and tea stained rust
a picture of a dream, a forgotten memory
of days as a child, adoring ,unworried
safe in the absence of knowledge of fragility
the cruelty of time and all its hostility
A reminder how savagely ,cruelly it took from me
the arms of my father ,the safety they held for me
yet here in a photograph we smile together
in a world, preserved, unwritten , forever.