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I know I’m a pack rat
and a part of me has always felt bad
but I was sifting through
and no, they aren’t as pretty
if I ever felt unloved in my life
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Keeping Christmas Ornaments
Janet Kuypers, 09/10/06 #2
and I keep a lot of things sometimes
but a part of me has always felt bad
because mom and dad,
when my other brothers and sisters were little
they helped them to make Christmas ornaments
from silk spun balls in different colors
my brothers and sisters added pins
with beads through them
into these silk spun ornaments
and they made pretty patterns
and the looked very nice on the tree
that I never had anything like that
that they never did anything like that with me
mom’s Christmas decorations tonight
wanted to see some of those
silk spun ornaments
she kept these thirty, forty years
and I noticed an additional box
of Christmas memorabilia in the back
I looked inside this box
and saw it filled with needlework
first I saw colored yard
designing an image of a candle
and I realized I made this
I continued looking
and saw an ornament in yarn
of a candy cane
and then I saw my lettering in yarn
in cut out patterns
saying “noel” and the like
I even saw an ivory fabric ornament
tied on the top
with beads sprinkled and glued on the bottom
as those silk-spun ornaments
but I couldn’t believe
that my mother
kept these Christmas ornaments
and trinkets I made
when I was little
I have to remember these ornaments
she kept of mine
and shed tears for a different reason
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