Photographs & Memories Poem by Charles Hancock

Photographs and memories
Of birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries
My first solo drive of the family car
And being afraid to go very far

And the first date with my true love
Kisses beneath the mistletoe above
When I finally made the grade
And Pomp and Circumstance got played

High Roller with my first paycheck
Dreaming of one day becoming the exec
Buying my first used pickup truck
Running it through the mud and the muck

Then cutting the apron string
In my own castle, I became king
And when I strutted like a peacock
When she accepted the rock

That night of endless mirth
Celebrating my first child's birth
Watching my tyke grow with the wife
Reminiscing about the circle of life