Keep every remembrance, hide ’em in a drawer
I am a 3rd year student of Journalism and Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Stirling. I have lived in Scotland for over two years now and I am still catching myself being amused by how green the fields and how grey the days here are. Both so very different than the ones I am used to back home in Poland.
I graduated International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and I am lucky to say I’ll experiance another type of weather – the sunniest to live in – in Spain during my semster abroad studies.
I am submitting my poem entitled ‘Remembrance’. I wrote it having my grandmother in mind.
Thank you!
Remembrance
You can be left with videos and photos
You can be left with letters and clothes
You can be left with many mementos
But you will miss the person the most
You can hear laugh which sounds from the video
You can see eyes which hang on the wall
You can smell scent while hugging the sweater
Their owner’s a leaf and there has been fall
Keep every remembrance, hide ’em in a drawer
In heart, though, hide parents, friends and your lover
And do not forget their touch and their kisses
Those are the things that everyone misses
And keep in mind to show love to all
You never know when you will be gone
Natalia Maciejewska
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