"Shadows Fall"

the sunlight fell through
the lace bathroom curtains
onto the soft golden tones
of the logs that make up
the walls of the cabin
making its own shadow pictures
there just touching the corner
of the picture tom took
of the blue cream persian cat
we gave mother so many years ago
giving our eyes just minutes
to see and us minutes to
remember them before
it takes us back
and moves us into today
as it surely will
finding us in its warm light
brushing us with the past
promising us the present
when the shadows of the past
will be ours