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Warm Memories

Story ID:	3555
Written by:	jim rambo
Story type:	Poem
Location:	Anytown USA
Year:	2008
Person:	Dad, Sam

Warm Memories

Why do women touch the body at viewings?
It’s never a man rubbing the hand, the suit.
Women are somehow into such doings
while men just stand or mill around mute.

I passed on the chance to touch my dad
as he lay quiet for guests to see.
It didn’t mean I was any less feeling.
It just wasn’t right; it wasn’t for me

So memories of Dad remain warm and fond.
I hope all of those women can say the same.
Our hearts remain one, here and beyond.
No cold touch memory. That was my aim.

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