Thursday, April 3, 2014

Writer's Digest POD: Day Three

Day three's prompt was a message poem.

UNKNOWN

The letter was old;
paper yellowed and creased
like my grandmother's hands,
worked and reworked
year after year.

Abandoned by its envelope,
lost some time ago,
set adrift in the box
of old family photos
waiting to belong.
If we could only determine
pedigree.

Many attempts had been made
to decipher dates or names.
But the words hid too well
leaving few clues
of authorship.

My darling S--
Sarah? Stephanie?
Samuel? Sean?

Without you
no light
Days dark
endless
see you
be together
Happy
Love
Yours,
T--
Tessa? Tracey?
Trevor? Thomas?

The message remains unsolvable
though perfectly clear.
S and T are caught
forever
anonymously -- in love.

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