Picture in a Box
In Loving Memory Poems
Box
I found your photo
In a box.
It didn’t move.
It didn’t talk.
And every day,
I looked in vain,
And every day,
It stayed the same.
It didn’t answer me,
Or change.
The lines across
Your face remained
Exactly where
They’d been before.
I hung your picture
On a door,
I lay my memories
On the floor.
I put your picture
On the wall.
You didn’t write.
You didn’t call.
My stomach burned
My hope grew small.
I couldn’t hear
Your voice at all.
And in my dreams
The letters came,
And when I woke
I heard your name.
But the picture
Stayed the same.
- Written by Anna V. Williams
Originally Published at Free Poems
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