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MY BOOK OF MEMORIES
    Another page was added to my memory book today
   To join the reams of pages
     That are safely stored away.

There are chapters filled with laughter,
   There are pages stained with tears.
    There are postscripts to the happy dreams
    I've had throughout the years.
     Some pages tell of joyous thoughts
      Which fluttered through my mind.
     Some tell of friends and relatives
Or those who were unkind.

   My memory book was started on that day that I was born.
          It cannot be completed until that destined morn
When Someone who controls my fate will come to me and say "You've lived enough, now come with Me.
You can no longer stay."

My memory book is mine alone
  Unless I choose to share
    The precious, lovely secrets
       That are tucked away in there.

     When things are going bad for me,
     My mind filled with despair,
      I simply turn the pages back
       To see what's written there;
    And from the chapters of the past
    I always can recall
    The times, the love, the happiness
    That's made this life my all.

     There are stacks and stacks of pages,
        Many blank, and pure, and clean 
         Awaiting time for future thoughts 
      To be added to the ream.

      Copyright by Barbara A. Duits 1999



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