I once had upon the mantelpiece<\/p>\n
A sand picture housed between 2 glass panels<\/p>\n
Prized as a child for its innovative charm<\/p>\n
I owned a tape cassette and listened<\/p>\n
to a song of moonbeams hidden<\/p>\n
Adventure revealed in the depth of tone<\/p>\n
But the picture was sharply rejected<\/p>\n
by your newly acquired sophistication<\/p>\n
And when you sang the words<\/p>\n
The song rang hollow<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Years later,<\/p>\n
On hearing the song again<\/p>\n
Halcyon ways urged me<\/p>\n
To lay down new tracks<\/p>\n
To overlay the fading memory<\/p>\n
of life\u2019s inequities but sand spilled<\/p>\n
Leftover on that mantelpiece<\/p>\n
Scratching the new tunes down<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I will keep on coming back<\/p>\n
to the place we were before.<\/p>\n
Where the moon hid from light.<\/p>\n
I will keep on trying<\/p>\n
to establish new words<\/p>\n
new layers to preserve<\/p>\n
the innocence<\/p>\n
of an original moment<\/p>\n
When music was magical<\/p>\n
and sand built castles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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