by Vivian Edwards

Created on: May 19, 2008   Last Updated: April 09, 2011

Over there behind me and back where I keep it
The unresolved stories in this puzzle of life
Over there behind me away from sight
The box holding all left behind in the dust
A box closed so long ago it is covered with rust
Dusty and rusty are the stories it holds
The box back behind me
The stories untold

Over there behind me back in the corner
The corner in the darkness
Back behind over there
The left behind stories with unresolved issues
The ones I chose to close up so tightly

And put over there

Left behind are the memories of life as it should be
The memories of love in the breeze
The memories of playing and swinging all day
The memories of laughter and me

All tied up today with it in my way
The things as they should be have just gone away
Left behind are wishes and dreaming
All tightly and safely tucked away
Back over there left behind me

Left behind me is the youth in my eyes
The gusto for living
The hello's and good-bye's
Left behind me in the box in the sand
Over there hidden away
Left behind me one day

Left behind me is the stories
The stories that have no end
The unresolved issues today in my way
The early years of a playful trusting child
Quietly asleep within the box
Back over there behind me

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