Moving Memories

When the rocking chair sits empty 

day after day I sense it’s loneliness. 

But then rocking chairs don’t have feelings. It is only my feelings 

that long for the days of babies 

that need rocking to sleep, 

toddlers working the rocking chair 

for the first time. Hard work!

So, I take my book and rock gently til my head rests where my dad’s head would be. 

Rocking chairs are more than furniture 

~ they are moving memories.

“There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about 

a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.”

~ Wallis Simpson, socialite

(1896 - 1986)