| Strangers in the Box
Come look with me inside this drawer
In this box I've often seen
At the pictures black and white
Faces proud still, serene.
I wish I knew the people
These strangers in the box
Their names and all their memories
Are lost among the socks.
I wonder what their lives are like?
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.
If only someone had taken the time
To tell who, what or when
These faces of my heritage
Would come to life again.
Could this become the fate
Of the pictures we take today
The faces and the memories
Someday to be passed away?
Make time to save your pictures
Seize the opportunity when it knocks
Or someday you and yours could be
The strangers in the box.
- Wendy Roberts
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