Terry-Cloth Robe

Your intention was to compliment…
by telling me that you remembered.

Then you revealed that your recollection was
initiated by your experiencing the same with Another.

In this, I found neither compliment nor pleasure.
All that I knew was a sense of loss.

There was no joy in my knowing that what was once held
as a singular Treasure…
Is reduced, by your valuation… to meaninglessness.

For That which had been cherished as rare and precious…
Is now tossed into a jar of accumulated trinkets.

John-Michael
(24 May 2007)