Friday, March 16, 2018

Saying Goodbye


Unsplash Photo by Steve Johnson


Saying Goodbye

The storage unit is pitch black
The boxes 
are stacked right where we left them. I kick one with my shoe 
and wonder what I’m going to do with these boxes 
once I get them home. There will be new 
piles of boxes 
in our basement. I’d rather have you 
back than all these memories stuffed into boxes.


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2018




This Golden Shovel was written for the March 2018 Ditty Challenge 
using part of a line of a poem by Devon Hope.