Folder of my memories

I recently made a folder

Of all the memories I love

And as I get older

I seem to have more memories to shove

And i ring up my oldest movies

That play in the back of my mind

The love and peace gifted to me

And the things I didn't always get right

From the inner palace to delicate paper

That captures the colours of my life

Flowing down life's gentle taper

Memories of longing cut me like the sharpest knife

Though the folder fills and overflows

The binders tear and break

It can never hold what made me

Remembrance is in the life I make

And the dreams of past will flow on

In unbroken brooks of time

I shall walk forward to the new dawn

And find the love that lies in these memories of mine

For I am the walker, not the nostalgia of the path

Though my folder forever will be filled

The dream of tomorrow lays untrodden

Waiting for todays unbroken will

I will remember all that i came from

And carry times wisdom forever to see

For as the folder sits in my drawer I realise

The real folder is within me