Keep This Where I Won't Forget You

PAD Challenge day 5: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Keep This (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

Often no matter how I vow

To keep a memory, it slips

like little leaves from autumn's bough

noiseless beneath Time's fingertips

as new impassioned pleas insist

'keep me' ; you fade into the mist

...of far away and long before

the why's and wherefores of today

but sometimes through Past's soldered door

it seems I hear the echoes splay

of long-forgotten this and that

stoking the air where once we sat

...and I was sure I'd ever keep

you where nothing can claim you, but

deft moments rearrange the deep

obliterating what I thought

I sealed where nothing could invade

the place where memories are laid

...but oh, that ever-forward clock

is such a giver as it steals

with nothing but its tick and tock

it unlocks vaults and refills reels

that once I rendered to the kiss

Of vows; "I'll never forget this"

 Janet~

 

Sometimes an unexpected Something sparks memories of days and moments long-forgotten; on Sunday morning after the congregation finished singing a worship song a little girl held in her daddy's arms cupped his face between her baby-hands and declared in pure delightful charm, "and that's what makes God happy, right daddy?'

It reminded me of days when our kids were little and would say things I vowed never to forget...but did;-(