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January
1988
On
Parting
headlights
run Front Street
all
heading away
inside
Wendy’s we sit
we
three
comrades
of other evenings
and
other years
we
sit
discussing
our futures
making
our varied plans
away
from this focus
our
lives soon will take us
away
from the warmth
of
a sudden evening tea
and
get togethers over videos
on
rare Monday nights
seven
months lie yet
between
us
and
that coming day
I
should rejoice
in
the times you’re left to me
but
I don’t
the
tears of tomorrow drown
the
joys of today
I
find my dance decay
its
steps go leaden
God
brought us together
and
we grew as friends
for
that I give thanks
always
glory
to God!
my
prayer is now
that
someday
in
some unknown where
we
will meet again
to
smile
and
laugh
at
the yesterdays
once
we shared
At
Wendy’s in Belleville, “dining” with Cathy and Shirley,
faced with the sudden reality of parting.