Inspiration can come from anywhere. In this case, a memory, a song, and my love for books...strange as the combination may sound...
I’ve got your memory
Or has it got me?
I really don’t know
But I know, it won’t let me be
(Patsy Cline, She's Got You)
Absent and detached
In this thing they call life
In comes the memory
Cutting pain like a knife
Pretend play it may be
Fooling only myself
Your memory I access
Like a favorite book from the shelf
The smell of your skin
Lingers and covers me
Like the smell of the leather binding
As I turn the pages anxiously
Trusting in your touch
Anxiety slowly subsiding
Like a classic I enjoy
Comfort so abiding
Thoughts, memories, wishes
I don’t ever want to erase
Turning to your page in my soul
A bookmark, holding place
Owning a season of my days
A passage of my existence
Reads like a memoir of historic rendezvous
Survival and subsistence
I bring a glimpse of you
To my imaginary room
A fairytale of tragic romance
Picked before the bloom
Adrenaline running through my veins
Last chapter haunts me so
Excitement descending climax
Melancholic I must go
I sit and smile
The two halves greet
Cover, back
And pages meet
I close the book
Of memories past
And place you back
On the shelf at last
Michelle Hix
11/2007
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Oh my goodness! I love Elise's office drama! I feel like I'm in a movie when I read it. ha ha I have this problem of having too many things in my head at once when I write. I can't sort it all out and I feel like a lot of times its obvious when I write. Like I can't stay on one page with a subject! I was sooo glad to see Bettina go. She's odd. But what I wouldn't do to have a body like hers though!!!
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