Packing Yesterday Away

Sealing boxes, closing doors

Life’s secrets put away to store

The muffled thud catches at memory

The crash of the door slams behind

The good times and the bad

Another chapter of life lived and past

Storing all the things that couldn’t last

In the corridors of memory

Decked in cobwebs of Time

Sealed with the sealing wax of used to be.

Like trinket boxes filled with recollections

Time’s compartments overflow

Jewel-encrusted days flown by

Strung on the silver thread of memory

Say thanks for what we had

Joy, laughter and the tears

Suddenly I looked back and found

Time had gone, days turned to years

So here I am, left only with today

I find myself packing yesterday away

Slam the lock, close the door

Memory’s not welcome any more

The years that stretch ahead

At best will still be shorter than

Those which have gone before

Friends who have enriched my days

Brought colour and love to the tapestry

Life’s warp and weft, sadness and joy

The eternal Flickershow; we laugh and cry

And, all too soon, we part and die

On High days and Holy days

I stride through the quiet corridor

Of times gone by now lost in memory

Turn the moments over and recall

What each one meant to me

Precious then and precious still

They tramp the path of long ago

Golden, glistening, kept in their thrall

Rainbow colours hold the mind’s sway

Again I find I‘m packing yesterday away.