Remembrance

• Remembrance

  
  
  Remembrance is an art
  snatched with the bare hands.
  Found in the back rooms of haunted
  mansions, and forgotten at the quaint
  little shops, this piece of memory
  tucks and prods at the corners of minds.
  
  Remembrance is rain
  after the dusty months of drought
  and first touch of frosty snow
  on our shoulders still
  tanned from the summer months.
  We are startled at first sight
  and then sit back in our seats
  sighing with contentment.
  
  A glimpse of a dream,
  a slight gesture of hands,
  a strange town that feels like home
  is all it takes to stir up
  the artist who picks up the brush,
  rolls up the sleeves paint up
  the landscape and brings out
  the statues stored at the attic
  of our minds.
  
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  HAPPY BIRTHDAY VIGGO!
  Here's to remembering the day when the world was given a person as wonderful as you.