Love and Eternity: XXVI

XXVI
"Inside plastic cases"

Locked inside plastic cases
Old tickets, antique events
Cherished things, previous places
Kept memories that we've spent
Every time together saved
Dinner receipts and loose change
Impossible odds we've braved
Now preserved for endless age
My case grows full and bulky
Yet memories bloom more so
Still growing red like cherry
On harvest bear fruitful bough
Under the coffeehouse shade
Locked in eternal embrace
Flowers age and petals fade
Only your touch in me stays
Rosy cheek may wither grey
Even gait may bend in time
Vision still keeps in display
Every charm possessed sublime
Roads we've walked and food we ate
Minced piecemeal in my old case
Your letters and our small dates
Living in so many ways
On jewelry, plastic bags
Very expensive gifts too
Even costly shopping tags
Enter plastic case for you
Eden barred from sinful men
Still lives in my plastic case
And still lives on even when
Hairs fade in my ending days.