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When You Come

When you come to me, unbidden,

Beckoning me

To long-ago rooms,

Where memories lie.

 

Offering me, as to a child, an attic,

Gatherings of days too few.

Baubles of stolen kisses.

Trinkets of borrowed loves.

Trunks of secret words,

 

I cry.

Written by
Maya Angelou
1928-2014 / Female / American
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