Love Poem: Right Here In My Heart

Right Here In My Heart


                    I keep them all in a secret place,
right here in my heart . . . 
      All those faces in frames on my bookcase,
         the beloved-  I wish so much to embrace;
                    and think about every single day . . . 
my sister, 
      grandpa, 
          father and mother.
             my husband and my baby who died-
And in a sacred place 
                       I keep my sweet grandma 
   who is the reason I write . . . 
but the worst, the worst-
       that shatters my heart,  
            is the boy who came home in a box 
from a stupid, senseless war,
                              my brother.

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May 21, 2017

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Brian Strand