MEMORIES--award winner

MEMORIES


There are certain people you
Just keep coming back to.
They may be gone from your life,
Their memories haunt you.

Whether those memories be
Rough, tender, sweet or sour,
They do bring again to you
Ones who were in life your.

No use pretending that you
Can ever forget them.
One memory does bring forth
Many more in tandem.

Often it so happens that
In our heart we regret
That to love our flesh and blood
We often did forget.

You can’t stop the memories
From your mind, that is true.
Give love to those yet around;
That’s one thing you can do.



• Written in abcb, 7-6-7-6 format

* Awarded third place in "Like a Song" Poetry Contest, ""Like a Song" Poetry Contest" , Round 11, May 2007. As per the prompt requirement, it had to be a poem containing the following line from a popular song lyric: “There are certain people you just keep coming back to”


M C Gupta
19 May 2007