A Friendship Born
With a glass still full and brimming with fun,
She’s almost completed the life she’d begun.
She can’t remember all the faces and names,
Nor can she recall all the heart aches and pains.
What she can, however, is smile at it all,
Though a lot of the faces, she can’t seem to recall.
“What does it matter” who or what will come next?
What concerns her now, is she is living her best!
Each day she awakens, a smile on her lips.
She turns on some music, and swings with her hips.
To the kitchen she dances, to look for some food.
If you didn’t know her, you’d think she was rude.
For she’s lost in some memory of long ago years.
She thinks of her husband, but doesn’t shed tears.
She knows that the day, when she meets him once more,
He’ll hold out his arms, to the girl he adores.
For the love that she’s felt for some 70 years,
Does not dissolve, when one disappears.
For in the three faces, they raised with such care,
And in all the moments that they each have shared.
It doesn’t just whither and blow like the dust.
No, it doesn’t just vanish and never mean much.
For it lives on in children that come after them.
It continues to grow, without ever an end.
And with it all, we must take in stride,
That the people we love, will never die.
That they dance around circles with grins for us show.
They make us be better, than we thought we could know.
That the shadows they leave us in some corner dark,
Are brighter by far, and have left their mark.
That they whisper and laugh, and teach us our days,
Are here to make friends and show loving ways.
So Marti, I love you, I’m glad that we share,
So many moments, our secrets we bare.
Your laughter and living and keeping the beat.
Your wisdom and humor and dance in your feet,
Inspires my shortfalls and lifts up my mood.
And makes me feel more than I ever could.
You’ve given me more than you’ll ever know,
You’ve patted my spirit when it was so low.
I’m forever grateful for finding this gal,
Introduced to me by, a guy named Cahal.
For he was the catalyst that sailed to my port.
I didn’t know why, but now can report.
That it wasn’t his performance that I’d come to see,
But new found friendships destined to be.
Two loving friends that I can call my own
Where ever I travel, wherever I roam!
All the blessings that friendships bring without thought.
All the passing of time, and the loneliness wrought.
Can never out weigh the truth of a friend.
No matter your age or the prayers that you send.
And if they should leave this earth homeward bound.
We’ll still be in touch and we’ll still hear their sound.
The laughter the giggles, and the grins on their face.
The love in their eyes, that a heart can’t erase.
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