A sight a sound a touch can awaken a memory
and in that memory a moment is revived
And even a simple aroma can make a memory come alive?
Cookies baking in the oven is a smell I’ll always adore,
clothes fresh out of the dryer fried chicken in the store.
The smell of rain a bubbling pizza, strawberries
an afternoon barbecue
an orange a watermelon, a fresh peach
that perfect honeydew
Onions caramelizing on the stove, cooking garlic in a pan,
bacon donuts Coppertone—you know that stuff that makes you tan.
The salt and the sand at the ocean dogwoods blooming in the trees,
popcorn, a newborn baby the smell of a mountain breeze
Chocolate, vanilla, a Christmas tree apple pie that’s al-a-mode,
coffee brewing in the morning grass once it’s been mowed.
The smell of books almost any flower a gardenia a carnation, a rose
peanut butter when you first open the jar the smell of a loved one on your clothes.
Grandma’s perfume or Dad’s cologne when I smell them in the air
makes me stop and think about them as if they were standing there
These are some of the aromas over the years that I have known
Feel free to close your eyes a moment and add some of your own
And relive the magic of aromas for wherever we may roam
We know we’re smelling so much more
We’re smelling love
We’re smelling home.
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