Visiting family always meant surprises
anticipated from my niece then a girl
who loved everything theater and song
whose tight curly hair & bright eyes
shone like a happy beacon of light
she remembers talk of a voice teacher
& the one time both niece and sister
practiced the violin
but the one memory that dances across
the pages of her mind is the visit
to a restaurant on a clear warm night
where the happiness of the girl seemed
simply to overflow &; take flight
so when they walked into the night air
she believed they had left her behind
but not very far had she gone
for the landscape had small hills there
where she stood upon the top of one
hence she raised her arms spread wide
breaking into song to make us smile
‘the hills are alive…
my sister just smiling at the big voice
that filled the night and I sighed
© 2017 Renee Espriu
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Oh, this made me smile. I have been there, and done that, and you took me back straight back through time to that moment.
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