Thanks for sending all three Poems, Jane. I really like "Strangers in the Box." Have been left with a few strangers in my box, too. I need to get busy and add names to the pictures of my departed so my kids and grandkids won't be left with "strangers in a box" after I am gone. Bless you. Jo Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Foley" <mjfent@bellsouth.net> To: <whitkid2@bigrivertel.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:07 PM Subject: [SPAM]The Strangers in the Box >> Strangers in the Box >> >> Come, look with me inside the drawer >> in this box I've often seen, >> at the pictures black and white faces proud, still, serene. >> >> I wish I knew the people >> these strangers in the box, >> their names and all their memories >> are lost among my socks. >> >> I wonder what their lives were like. >> How did they spend their days? >> What about their special times? >> I'll never know their ways. >> >> If only someone had taken time >> to tell who, what or when, >> these faces of my heritage >> would come to life again. >> >> Could this become the fate >> of pictures we take today? >> The faces and memories >> someday to be passed away? >> >> Make time to tell your stories. >> seize the opportunity when it knocks. >> Or someday you and yours could be >> The strangers in the box. >> >> Author Unknown > >