Cookie Jars
via Daily Prompt: Hidden
How normal is it to store bits of scrap!
I’m sure all of us have a box stashed away somewhere which is filled with some random-est of stuffs. Broken toys, birthday cards, first love letter, marbles, pens, bottle corks, key-chains, lose pearls and many of such seemingly useless things. They are like evidences of the life that is now lost to us; filled with bittersweet memories of our childhood, our first love, our first broken heart, of people with whom we are no longer in touch.
It’s our own little chest of treasures, stacked away with golden memories, until such a time in future when we will want to pursue those pleasures again.
Here’s such a cookie jar filled with a labyrinth of scars….
Cookie Jar
He rarely gave her a gift
Yet she stacked away
Some memories of their meet
A train ticket here, a shirt button there
A few stray letters
With words full of love and care
A lifetime worth of scrap you can say
But each associated with
A memory of that lovely day
As the years seemed to pass by as hours
The love that was meant to reach for the stars
Was now Hidden away in some random cookie jars…
- Ashwini Nawathe
Do you have a treasure hidden away somewhere? I surely do and it’s filled with some very beautiful memories! 🙂
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ASHWINI NAWATHE
Hi, I'm a nature lover, a trekker and an ardent reader from Mumbai, India. After playing Lawyer for a time, I shifted to my passion and love – History! A 9 to 6 job as a Senior Executive: Research, Content Writer and Editor helps me earn by bread and butter which is ultimately spent on travel and food :)
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Rajiwriteshere
beautifully written! memories sometimes are painful!
Ashwini Nawathe
Yes but it’s a package which we will always carry be it a burden or blessings 🙂
Rajiwriteshere
haha true, best is to forget those which are burdening 🙂
Ashwini Nawathe
Yea..:)
Vaibhaw verma
lovely poetic expression
Ashwini Nawathe
Thank you so much!! 🙂
Radhika Acharya
Beautifully expressed !! Keep going 🙂
Ashwini Nawathe
Thanks dear 🙂
Train Today to Reap Tomorrow
Well said and written. There are very many memories are like what you said from the childhood and the one I want to share is the money we used to get from the relatives for touching their feet while visiting them and hiding those money in books or covers or under the bed and then finding them after
many days or month or year was a Eureka moments.
Ashwini Nawathe
Haha yeah… I get such happy Eureka moments when I get chillars (change) from jeans pockets too! Dhana Laabh!! 😀
GANSU
amazing poem
itisfavour
Wow, nice. I love cookies