childish faces from time past

cherished grins and beloved frames

–how is it that a single photo

can take your breath away

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take you right back to the details

of that moment and to a place

where you miss those people

who still exist, but who have

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grown and changed and if possible

made you love them even more

but yet it would be inexplicably lovely

to go back, to spend even one hour with

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who they also used to be, to pull them

onto your lap and cuddle once again

to listen to their chatter on the events

of the day, of what went right and

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what went wrong, to be the one that gets

to hear these precious things, to smell

their skin and capture that moment in

greater detail once again because you

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blinked and now they’re grown and

while you wouldn’t change the person

they’ve become, you still miss the one

they used to be

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©Heather Pound 2022