Old Friends

Old friends, old friends,

Sat on their park bench like bookends

A newspaper blown through the grass

Falls on the round toes

of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men

Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun

The sounds of the city sifting through trees

Settles like dust on the shoulders of the old friends.

Can you imagine us years from today,

Sharing a park bench quietly

How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends, memory brushes the same years,

Silently sharing the same fears

Time it was and what a time it was,

A time of innocence, a time of confidences,

Long ago it must be,

I have a photograph,

Preserve your memories,

They're all that's left you...