Old Boys

~

I do not have the right

to call him a friend, he was

just someone I met in school

whom I have thought fondly 

of across these many years,

an elegant sportsman, a rare

quality in one so young, a

gentle fellow who also thought 

well of me and others too,

a recent photograph received

mirrored that life had not 

been kind to him at all and

now he has gone and with

him the opportunity to

relive old times, 

to smile, touch each other’s 

arm and say, 

‘yes it was good back then’

*

Graham R Sherwood 08/24