Memory box

“We sit around a memory box,
Sharing photographs and old notes,
Basking in nostalgy like it’s all we’ve got,
Trying to retrieve the happiness we once sought.

Memory is forever a tricky thing,
Tickling our senses with its whims
Of how the past was better than we think
Forgetting the bad, hiding it under its wing.

But my days with you are, by far, the best,
So we pinpoint days in our calendars to achieve the very best –
The best moments, the best laughs, the best day out of all,
A ready, set, go at the distance of a call.

So here’s to the memories
We have yet to make,
Ready to fill our memory box to the brim
With the many moments happiness to us will bring…”

Ana

Memory lane

“I take the path down memory lane
Once again, just to make sure
You once loved me back,
For I am an hopeless romantic
And from afar I could have misread it,
Even at times when you reassured me
You loved me and sworn you meant it.
Because today I’m forced to move on,
To gather our memories as I hold on
To the belief that not all is lost
After all, I’m still me now that you’re gone…”

Ana.

Originally posted: September 8, 2018

Here’s to another year

“I’m not good with retrospectives –
For a thinker, isn’t that funny? –
When I look back, I see but a blur
Of what once were.

We were happy, we were not,
We were alone, he tied the knot,
We were in the dark, we were not,
Light was hard to find, but the moon was not.

There’s a trail of breadcrumbs
On my memory’s yellow brick road;
I can follow it any time sadness comes,
As long as I’m ready for a nostalgy overload.

But life has made the future look brighter,
For once, I feel what’s to come more exciting,
Perhaps this is what happens when you grow and heal:
Your heart finds its desire to feel.

So here’s to another year
Of whatever it may be,
Life’s ready
And so are we.”

Ana

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Wishing you all a wonderful 2025 filled with love, peace, health, and everything nice for you and the ones you love. Let this be a year where we find ourselves overflowing with inspiration! Can’t wait to read what you will all write this here!

Happy writings in 2025 to us all!

With Love and lots of chocolate,
Ana

Under the burning sun

“Under the burning sun,
My body feels heavy,
My sight is blurry,
My mind is unsteady.

There’s something in the air,
Like I’m waiting on some edge
Of a cliff, with no breeze to carry
The thoughts that make me feel weary.

Cicadas’ play their summer song,
A tune for which I longed for too long,
Striking the chord of memory in me,
Playing the past like a symphony.

And, just like so, I linger,
As the heat remains tricky,
Unable to find a sprinkler
To stop me from daydreaming…”

Ana

Once a little girl…

“Little girl dancing on a field
Of yellow flowers blossoming,
Twirling her dress, laughing to the sky,
Filled with a kind of hope I strive to find.

If only I could look up at the sky and smile
Just as brightly as I did on that sunny day,
When I was once a little girl dancing amidst yellow dots,
A tiny spot of white in the green layout,
Free from sorrows and haunting doubts.”

Ana.

Originally posted: January 4, 2018

We go through life

“We go through life
Meeting one another –
All so alive,
Each like no other.

I go through phases –
From disappearing cases
To meeting everyone in places
Full of unknown faces.

And, one by one,
They find someone,
Moving forward, moving past,
Leaving flags at half-mast.

When I’m alone,
I miss someone –
Ghosts on sinking ships,
Our love, a full moon eclipse…”

Ana

Dear heart

“Please, dear heart,
Check your vanity from the start.
Don’t be flattered when you are seen,
For faces lie even when they look keen.

Even when memory forgets
The names of her regrets,
You, dear heart, are fond
Of reminiscing every bond.

Say they were nice,
But it turned into a vice –
Why dismiss the way it felt
To be crushed when you knelt?

Promises turned to feathers in the wind,
Empty handed spinning the wheel
Of time, so to find a fortune to win
Over, my own heart’s tender will…”

Ana

Picture Perfect

“A picture perfect:
Rocky path,
Muddy shoes,
Echoes of music
Greeting the warm kiss
Of the sunset on her skin.

A memory set apart
To last forever
Inside her heart,
As she laughed the night away,
Dancing until her feet ache.”

Ana.

Originally posted: October 24, 2017

The room

“The dust covers the room,
No scent, no perfume,
Just a place stilled in time
Day after day, night after night.

The table where seats were saved
Lost the memory of dinners once made,
Hiding under sheets once white,
Mundane ghosts in the backlight.

It’s the silence, don’t you see?
It’s the silence that speaks
Underneath fallacies and disbeliefs,
Whispers of long-lost film negatives.

The clocks, once forgotten, have stopped,
The snow vanished from the snow globe now rusted,
The past is a shadow that lingers in the in-between
Casting light over the stories of those who once lived here…”

Ana

Good liar

“He’s a loveable spirit
But I’m instability –
A duo so unholy
Could never be jolly.

He’s a good liar
And I fell for it;
A trip around the sun
And I’m still paying for it.

He has a sweet tooth for vague promises,
When all I ever wanted was some flowers
And a hug I could take with me forever
Within my precious heart’s loving memory…”

Ana