Friday, March 30, 2012

Memories: A Poem

Memories

by Armando Ortiz


Our memories

are fading photographs

hidden between pages

inside forgotten albums


Where fading peach sunsets

border the Polaroids,

with surface scratches

and faint glimmers of light.


Memories,

are stained-glass windows,

that filter dawn’s light

inside neglected chapels.


The walls are

bordered by alleys,

where street kids fight, and

bleed tears that

give life to rose gardens.


The past

are forgotten morning dreams, where

summers were spent inside pools,

and winters opening gifts.


We return to the neglected sanctuary,

where recollected experiences lay shattered and

are swept away by an invisible hand, that

makes a mosaic of memories

that’s as old as yesterday.


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