The Memory Garden

This was written by a mother to her firstborn child. Mom never sent the letter.

The Memory Garden

"Everybody needs a place

A private secret space

To hide and sort of - tuck away

Treasures you find each special day

Things you save may only be - special to yourself

Others need not know why they go in your hiding shelf

They are things that touch you, mold you, meld you

Help you learn that specialness about you

You will find them in the oddest places

Tucked in the lines of people faces

Photos saved from times that made

Your heart know you could not let that memory fade

Special phrases from the lines that you have read

In poems or books, special things that are said

Clippings, programs, lyrics galore

And as time goes on, your self and space have grown more and more

Soon you will need a bigger space

To keep all your treasures in their safe place

Whatever you do guard it with fervor

This special memory garden, you must always preserve

As years go by and your life travels far

As you are living, learning and have reached for your star

You can look into your garden of memories and know

What and who helped you, made you, and encouraged you to grow

As I wrote these words - that were meant for you

A day never ended - when that was not true

As the tides of the ocean can change everything

These words were kept hidden- as tides often do

While looking back through the lines of my life

Somehow the years - how they came - how they went

I found this in my Memory Garden

Of writings, poems and letters Never Sent."

Love Mom
Christmas 1996 (By Janet Michael)

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