I found some memories today
Stuffed away in a drawer
The pages yellow with time
The words still as strong as ever
Emotions rising to the surface
Glimpses into my past
My heart
My soul
Moments of beauty
Moments of pain
Moments that have made me
Captured in phrases
Poems and prose
Each line, each letter
Takes me somewhere
Another stop on the road
My personal timeline
I put the pages back
A surprise for another day
But the reminders still linger…
So I was cleaning out some drawers and storage containers today and found an old spiral notebook full of poems from sophomore and junior year. Kind of strange reading them, especially being reminded of what was going on to inspire them.