A Simple Gift’s Meaning
From my void of early memories
Effie Bender pushes through
daily donning her white
bonnet and a dress some shade of blue.
Just how long our friendship
lasted, recollection won’t attest,
but I know our dispositions
made us standout from the rest.
Past the clothing and the
bonding, there’s the gift her grandma made –
the only present I remember offered
me in any grade.
She gave to me a velvet teddy,
brown, with paws and ears of white,
dressed up with a satin
ribbon, hand-sized width and crayon height.
A rare display of affirmation,
one I still have sensing of.
At sixty, as I try to grasp,
I think the bear,
to me,
meant love.
Colleen Murphy
© 2018
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