My Legacy

Weekly Challenge

My Legacy

Let my legacy be
A quaint sea shell
In a tiny treasure chest
A drab thing of brown and pink
And no use at all to you.
Locked up with other little things
Of no account
Forgotten on the way
Let life and love occupy
Your minds
But on a rainy day
I hope when you've nothing
Better to do
An idle hour or two
Gazing at gray clouds
And heart beats like
Thunder
Pangs of memory
Like love may crackle
In your ribbed cage
Of strength
And may you remember
To take me out then
Dusty and unused
Brush off the cobwebs gentle
And kind
And let a little lustre
Shine through
Oh then remember me
My darling loves
And how much
I loved you.

I hope then for a single
Moment in time
And not as heavy baggage
For half your life
You remember me
With sweet smiling fondness
As a dream
Yet more real and true
Than the hardest facts of life
You face
And I hope it strengthens you
Hear my softest love
In loudest thunder
My dearest ones
And then
Bid me adieu.

© Amrita Valan 2015