#LaceChallenge by S.J Warner

Too Late

I thought I knew

Thought I understood

But now she was gone I had a new view

Of the woman that helped me step into womanhood

The house that had once been filled with love

Was now silent and empty

For she watched from above

I stood in a room filled with memories plenty

Yet it was a box that was strange

That caught my attention

One that had been stored and carefully arranged

To uncover it’s secrets my only intention

It wasn’t anything special

Just a beige box speckled with time

But held within this vessel

There was a story of a woman in her prime

There beneath the tissue

Sat lace yellowed with age

Amongst cards that said I love you

My emotions I could not gauge

With delicate fingers

I picked up the lace

When out fell some pictures

And I saw her beautiful face

Not marred by time

But filled with joy

With a man, arms entwined

Looking happy but coy

It was then I realised

With the lace in my hand

That the woman I had idealised

I didn’t understand

But now it was too late

I’d never get to know

The life that came before me and how we would relate

As my life became more complex, as I continued to grow

I sat there in tears

With questions unanswered

Questions I should have asked her over the years

Instead of just taking the love she had offered

And now it was too late…

© S.J Warner 2014.

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