Stephen Berwaldt (in his own words): “I live in Massachusetts.I am currently semi-employed…that sounds better than unemployed…but I am by occupation, a remodeling contractor…a very good one, I might add…so would my mother, if she could speak from wherever she is… 🙂 I have only been writing for two years, so no blogs…I can be found on Gather.
“Vestiges”
It might be a tilt of head
or
a stranger’s smile –
an inadvertent passing-by of a favorite place
she loved to visit when time allowed –
perhaps
her dried-rose bookmark left
in her favorite book
you took up to read again
just to imagine her voice
reading every word –
a snapshot found
while searching for scissors
to snip that loose thread off the cuff of your shirt –
a picture of her smiling just for you
eyes ablaze with love
or
riding down the road listening to
Nat King Cole crooning
“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”
on the radio
in his rich, sultry voice
that always made tears well up
and flow gently down her cheeks
it’s the innocuous things –
the small details that
no one else noticed but you –
that bring sweet flood of memories to your heart
a misting in your eyes –
a lump in your throat
the ache as fresh as if bereaved just yesterday
O,
how we miss the ones
we’ve loved and lost
and love still
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