Memories Are All That I Have Left

June 3, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Memorial Day, which was observed on May 29.

Today’s poem is a Memorial Day poem about the inadequacy of memories.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Memories are all that I have left.

Each becomes a well-worn photograph.

Missing is the warmth, the touch, the heft

Of life, the smile, the reassuring laugh.

Real people change, they grow, relate, unfold.

In time we share the adventures of their lives

As they marry, have kids, change jobs, grow old,

Loving us -- their parents, husbands, wives.

Dead people are alive in us, but they

Are not within themselves. No love revives

Your love, which I once cherished day-to-day.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/memor2.html. For more Memorial Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/memorialdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Memorial Day

May 29: Make a Little Time for Public Mourning

May 30: Make My Death a Canticle for Peace

May 31: Maybe Grief Needs Ritual, as Music

June 1: Maybe It Was Worth It, Maybe Not

June 2: Maybe There’s a Good Excuse for Fighting

June 3: Memories Are All That I Have Left