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Family Tradition country as flag
On the old mailbox it was written number three
It always sat on a shelf behind Grandma's T.V
It sat there for thirty years that I know of
Grandma has died... she's gone on above

I never had a grandpa... at least not one I could see
He was just a soldier in a picture smiling at me...
handsome in his uniform on the wall above the T.V.
He stayed thirty years where Grandma placed him to be

I sorted Grandma's stuff... it was rough
What to do with this... and... oh Lord... what to do with that
When it came to the picture... it was really tough
Hard moving a man after thirty years from where he'd been at

The old mailbox had weight other than its own
When I opened it... I more than knew why
Love letters had come the whole time he'd been gone
Stacks of old letters with words to make you cry

Words of tenderness and love and battles gone by
I left the letters in there... for after all you see...
it just went to my house... to rest on a shelf near my T.V...
and that soldier looks down from my wall... smiling at me
By Faye Sizemore
Copyright 2004
Listed July 22, 2011		  

About Author... Faye Sizemore makes her home in the beautiful foothills of South Carolina with Grant, the love of her life, as well as three dogs, two cats, two parakeets and four nanny goats. Grant is a Vietnam Veteran having served with the US Marines in 1968-69 and is, of course, Faye's muse. Faye is deeply interested in Veterans' Affairs and Veterans' Causes. She is very proud of Grant and her poetry is an off-shoot of that pride.

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