Home Movie
Dancing in tandem, bouncing on the bed--
or devils and witches, posing for Halloween,
you leap out from the past--ghosts who have been,
now shut in our minds and in your grown-up heads.
To see love's memories come alive and run--
the joy is almost greater than the pain
that, as we watch, the wall goes blank again,
and backwards you troop, lost shadows of the sun.
Copyright 2010-2012 Paul Petrie