Memory

Tonight I heard Hank Williams sing

“Cold, Cold Heart” 

and a blip in time

slipped through 

and made me cry

a little girl in a bar

listening to the jukebox 

with her smiling daddy

And it broke my heart 

to remember that daddy 

and that little girl

A memory as thin

as a gossamer curtain

haunts me still

when I hear Hank sing

And my daddy carries me back 

through the years

to that lonely little girl

wishing I could have seen

how it would break my heart 

and forever leave me lonely

Janice Kuykendall  

12/02/18