The time is 7:00am
The room has its meaning waiting
for those to feel.
A lady comes into the kitchen
Hears the clock ticking
Waits a moment to remember the
good and bad times she has spent in this
room.
Then she passes her memories with each
motion.
Realizing it was her family she was
feeling through the years.
She pauses several times trying to hold
on to each moment and would love to
relive them again only for age is creeping
up and passes her thoughts into the room.
The room reacts with unheard sounds.
Suddenly her actions bring the room to
life. Her presence is being absorbed.
Someday, somehow, someone will realize
these thoughts and feelings were present
in this room. She then will have a
chance to discuss them and it may be
her son or son-in-law or daughter but
she will discuss them and this is how
you bring things to reality. The emptiness
in a crowded room will bend its company
and will never be alone.

1992
Tony O’Neill
Conception Bay South, NL