Photographic Memory

Just when I think your image has faded dimmed, by the thief of time In the most unusual of places You show up...dressed up in yourself In a glance, quicker than a hummingbird' s heart The camera shutter of my searching eye finds you, ...in focus, There, all the while... I, so glad to have been yours... Albeit much less longer than love should have allowed I openheartedly welcomed Each and every vision of you... In dreams, in old Christmas cards I stashed away..savings your sentiments For a day like today When a daughter longs for her father's Italian songs.