Old Friends

Happy springtime, summery day,

Friends and Fun and Carefree Play.

Once you were mine to love and tell

All my secrets to, as well.

Our secret club, just you and me

and two or three

meet beside our triple tree,

with powers known only to we.

Forever friends until the end,

I never knew I had no friend.

Somehow, as our lives will do

I landed far away from you.
Many years have come and gone.
Families and grandchildren of our own.

Grown apart - now I found you again!

What a gift- a lifelong friend!

What's this? No answer do I hear

Perhaps I'll wait another year.

I think back so often with longing

Many years it has taken for me to see

I had only borrowed Belonging,

That never once belonged to me.