Someone
should have told me
about 30 years ago
To not only
store away
those little moments
but
to lovingly take them out
from time to time
and remember
the sight
the smell
the sound
the summer reunions
the holiday meals
the desultory conversations
the uncontrolled laughter
In the arrogance of
those endless
times when
all my loved ones were still
enfolding me
in that cocoon of
familial security
Before my appreciation of
how wonderful life can be
eroded away
in the travails of time
And my soul found this yearning
for then
and
apprehension
of now
