Sixteen-year-old Lily poses in a tad dusty picture titled: "Summer '64."
She is by a river bank.
Her hands leisurely rest in the pockets of her light wash jeans.
There is a playful yet somehow shy glint in her honey brown eyes. My eyes.
She shrugs her shoulders, beaming with a perennial toothy grin.
Her smile floats restlessly in the space of the photograph and bounces off its edges.
It laps against my soul like a comforting wave.
I cannot help but feel that she gifts this smile to me and me only.
She doesn't know that one day she will become my mother.
The river of time runs implacable under her bare feet.
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A/N: 6.1.2015. Music theme song: Candy Dulfer & David A. Stewart: "Lily Was Here."
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