Things of Yesteryear

Antique books.

1911, 1917, 1932

 Letter written on December 29, 1916.

 Old bonnet.

 The American Woman Magazine.

June, 1921.

I can almost feel the residue from long gone memories 

still clinging to the old parchment.

Tightening its grasp around the fragile objects

never letting them forget their past.

their beautiful

hard

sweet

horrible

past.

I can almost hear the whispering pages

that hold the secrets of yesteryear.

Like recordings of the soft voices

of those who've touched these yellowed pages 

who've drank in these coal black words 

that enabled them to

hope

 for a better tomorrow.

believe

in the impossible.

and

dream

for something more.