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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.

I think it means that a long ago love appears to her either in her day or night dreams--or maybe even in real life--and conjures up memories of their too fleeting time together....of shared time and kisses and words between just the two of them... and the power of those memories breaks her heart.

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