Granny's old Diary

After grandma Sarah
Passed away,
I found her old diary
In the attic one day.
Between two yellowed pages
I found a lock of hair
And in fading script the story
Of her first love affair
In an old summer hotel up in
The Catskill mountain scene,
When she and her lover,
Don, were only seventeen,
On some passionate night,
They fell in love and had sex,
'neath the moon shining bright,
For both, the first time,
Sarah wrote, it was divine.

A month later, Don and family
Departed for his father's
US Embassy's post in Spain,
Never to see each other again.

Sarah kept his lock of hair
In her diary as a token,
But her heart was broken
And she felt spurned
When to the letters she wrote
No answers were ever returned.

Finally, Sarah did not tarry,
One year later my
Grandpa Sam did she marry.

Sometimes, I wonder if she ever
Told Sam about her summer affair,
Or he ever found her diary
And that lock of hair...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2008 Alfred Charasz