The times you were held
in those rare, accidental pauses,
in the early mornings before you
walked out the door on the way to
school,
reside in your memory
like fingertip drawings
in the sand by the ocean shore.
And not until the day you hold another
in that same special space
does the light of the sun burn
your creation into eternity.
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