2014 April PAD Challenge: Day 5

Apartment shifting, no internet connectivity and the result: severe backlog in uploading poems. Here’s Day 5, more to follow.

Day 5 prompt: Write a poem about discovery

It lay obscured in a dark corner

The beautifully crafted wooden chest

We were packing up grandma’s things

It had been a week since we laid her to rest

A brooch, three rings, an old journal

Nestled among mothballs and scraps of lace

Below the diary lay an old photograph

There stood grandma with a smile on her face

She was young, maybe eighteen or twenty

A young man had his arm around her

Tall and handsome, in a well cut suit

It was a shock to see it wasn’t grandfather

‘When was this taken’ I wondered aloud

‘Turn it over, there might be a date’

Lo and behold, there it was

In faded ink, January nineteen fifty eight

The mystery photograph intrigued us

We read the journal for a clue

It spoke of a love story hitherto unknown

Sentimental and sweet yet tragic too

They were in love, Gran and the man

When Fate destroyed their plans

A fatal accident took him away for good

Leaving Gran to nurse her broken heart in silence

Then one day she met my Gramps

His love helped her overcome her sorrow

Together they build a wonderful life

Creating a legacy that lives on, today and tomorrow

With the last breath that left her body

I wonder whose face did she see

This unexpected discovery in grandma’s attic

Suddenly became so very special for me

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