Garland of experiences

A free verse for the Stormy's Poetry Newsletter Contest.

It is never too wrong
to cherish your precious moments
from the memory box on the
top shelf in the closet inside
your heart.

Sometimes there are hidden secrets
that you want to keep safely.
Sometimes there are treasures
that you want to stow.
Sometimes there are past incidents
that you want to erase permanently.

As you grow old,
you learn that each
of these jewels of recollection
forms a bead in the garland of
experiences that you carry onward in life
and move with it until death.