The Top Shelf Of Your Closet

                                                               

If the heart is the “home” to all of your fondest memories

I’ll settle for the top shelf in a bedroom closet

Just to be remembered; to know I touched your heart

On a day when, perhaps, my soul shined brightest

Perhaps, on some rainy day you’ll find nothing else to do

But take me down from that dusty shelf, and recall a time

When I made you laugh or cry, or...remember

A day when I helped you to feel “not alone”

Sometimes, when all the words are said

Maybe the only thing that matters is a smile, a gentle touch

Or even a pat on the back to let you know I care

That you delight me just by being you

One can never say “I love you” often enough

For we never know when it may be the last time we say it

So let me say “I love you” again this day

And pray I live to say it again on the morrow

And when I leave this world, and am no more

May the legacy of the love I offered, and voiced

Rest gently in some back room in your heart

To be taken out, and cherished, on some dark and rainy day