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Saved Away

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Friendship bracelets and
Christmas ornaments
of your hand print and side-eyed grin
Ceramic trivets and Scout patches
Created or earned with lifetime friends
Curls from your first haircut and
your almost swallowed tooth
Report cards and ribbons
from soccer and swim
Little Golden books and middle school journal
Snapshots and home videos
Dioramas and color penciled maps
And cards; every November and May
I love you momma at 5, 13 and 24

Saved away as sweet memories
Little pieces of you

Treasured as memorials
to prove that you lived.

Seconds

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How many things had to go just so
How many tiny infantecible little things had to go just so
What if you had stopped to
Tie your shoes
Send a text
Look up at the moon
What if you had dropped your keys
Forgotten your wallet
Tripped off the curb
Why didn’t someone tell one more joke
Give you one more hug
Pull out in front of you

He would have flown past just in front of you or just behind
The difference between scaring you and killing you.
I wish your shoes would have come untied.