to remember or not

 

                          White Bread Blues: Sonnet for a Long-ago Love

                          Now is the age when memory is sweetest
                       The heart going to the time when wearing pearls
                      was magic before it was cause for grief
                    played over and over and over
                 The same befores and afters, the same
               first the love, then the pearls, then the grief.
             Grief then, had all the all time charm.
           In the end, now, when treasured companion
        of the heart is memory of love and pearls,
      when longest debate over lovely lust
    is cause for warmest regard
   when sheer possession of memory sweeps all argument aside
  makes equal the foolish and the fine,
there grief and pearls and love abide.

                           Mary Norbert Korte

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