Gift Box Of Memories.

Locked away all the emotions

Picked up from my playground

I oft laughed with you there

Days ago, maybe weeks, perhaps months

Now I've carefully picked up all the joys

And placed them in my precious box

You made me smile, not seldom

I've had to gift myself that smile one day

So wrapping that up in a gift box too

To be unwrapped on another day

And the dimples will be cratered again

The unspoken promises we had

Locked away in our humble hearts

Now frozen, long forgotten

I'll pick them up too

And gift them to me as memory

I've cared for you

And the prayers I've made

The genuine love in them

Will be the concealing bow

On my most precious gift box

There's more space in it

Maybe I'll wholly find a way to make fit

Even those moments when I thought all was lost

And you held my hand and whispered hope into my soul

It's a gift to a gift from the greatest gift of all

Thank you.

Maybe the box will endure worse weather

Than our hearts ever have

No gloom can shrivel its contents 

Because a gift can never go

It always is, always was, only waiting to be gifted