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Secret in the Attic |
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Leading to the attic, there is a narrow stair
Grandma's old treasures are stored up there
She has
her wedding dress all pearls and lace
Old pictures and
trunks are stored in this place
Lots of things she
put here because they were still good
The many drawers
are full in old dressers of antique wood
On Sunday,
last week we buried our beloved Grandma Anne
To her house
in this quiet street she'll not be coming again
She
lived alone thirty years after Grandpa died
She never
married again, Grandpa was her pride
Boxes of
pictures, so many more than I could count
They have to be
gone through, we can't throw them out
Here's Father's
picture, on the back, it says he's just eleven
He has
gone last year, and waits for Grandma in heaven
Here
is a soldier's picture, by the uniform, can you tell the
year
He doesn't look familiar to me; I wonder why she
kept him here
Grandpa was a soldier way back in World
War II
This must be a picture of someone he once knew
What's that sticking out the back, the frame is falling
apart
It's an old letter and on the back is drawn a heart
"My dear Anne, Tom told me, before his death in my arms
came'
Heavens, look at this letter, it is signed with
Grandpa's name
"If I make it through this war and if
I finally come home
Will you marry me, and let me take
Tom's babe as my own"
Why, Tom was my father's name!
"Take Tom's babe as my own?"
I held in my hands a picture
of a grandfather I'd never known
Never known because
he had been killed in the war
All these years his picture
has lain in this drawer
I sent a silent thank you to
the grandfather who had come home
He has my love and
honor, this man who claimed us as his own |
By Faye Sizemore
Copyright 2002
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January 5, 2012 |
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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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