Reveries

Reveries...
Your sunflower face....crouching in the meadow
Sunday morning
Hiding gleefully behind
Bushes...
While I call
Are you ready?
Playing hide and seek
Climbing trees...
Your valiant swing from
A flimsy branch
Broke your arm...
I don't even remember
How you fell
But oh yes I will forever
recall that dumb grin
Fringe over your eyes
After the fall.

The summer skits we play acted
You laughed at my Indian
Accent
I spoke such strange English.
How mortified to be corrected by you
And now it's so funny.

There you are...
Somewhere across an ocean around the corner of
A winding lane
And perhaps with a family
Sons you're raising like me
Or maybe little ladies.

I'm still stuck in the slow lane
A cul de sac from the past
Where you grin  mock adoration
Like a cheeky charming child monkey.

And love to you.
You're not alone
In my hall of angels.
I have A host of  childhood friends
I must serenade
Someday...
Seeing you as a little boy on your mama's shoulders today
In a chance photograph
On a sunny day
...made a song in my heart for you...my friend
May God be with you. ...

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