Some Save Words Poem by Patti Masterman

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Women save romantic letters;
Even if she never married him,
It can't get better.

For immortalized there in pen
Are many hearts desires-
They may be cold coals now,
But once were raging fires.

She keeps the proof that she
Was thought a worthwhile prize;
Even if reproof were all
She sees in nearby eyes.

It's hope she searches,
Thumbing the well-worn page;
Memories of youth, when she
Wore well a younger age.

He took her love until
It was a cheapened thing;
More meaningless than
Even her simple ring.

She'll pawn the ring,
At the corner shop she knows-
But she won't give up the letters,
For any diamond's glow.