Remember

will you remember these times?

long days spent spinning beneath an electric blue canopy,           

admiring rainbows, birds, clouds made of puffed marshmallows

and those thin trunks with waving fronds

that dance hula in the swaying breeze

will you remember

pushing your toes

into finely tumbled bits of multicolored shells

digging fingers, shovels, buckets, anything into the grains

and molding them into everything your imagination inspired you to create?

will you remember these moments

when you stood where water met sand

and dared the almighty sea to come up and catch you,

when you greeted the ocean as an old friend

with open arms and a happy heart?

will you remember

laughter shared with Mom and Dad,

Aunties and Uncles,

Grandmas, and Grandpas,

Siblings, and Friends?

I hope you will fondly remember

because as long as you do,

your box of treasures will always be filled

with love, family,

and beautiful, precious moments like these.

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