When the Walls Were Magnolia

Where are those
love letters
he wrote for you ..
I know
for a fact, they
were bound
and then placed
in a box
on the shelf he
once made
for the wall of
a room
you once shared
together ..
I also recall,
those walls were
magnolia
and the quilt
then consisted
of patched
Laura Ashley
with two pillows
each of both
lilac and cream ..
That though was
way back
when the old
leaded window
looked out
over the garden
and courtyard
to somewhere
beyond
where the church
of Saint Luke
still stands tall,
formal and proud ..
Yet of all
of those things,
he cared
to remember ..
Without a shadow
of doubt,
it was surely
the love letters,
he wrote
all those years
ago now and came
home for ..
He wanted
more than ever
to leave with today ..