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OLD FRIENDS AGAIN
After spending a day with old friends…remembering how our lives have intertwined
I smile as this old poem comes blissfully to mind:
They met as strangers…unfamiliar…apprehensive…
that first meeting…tentative but sweet.
Which, when you stop to think about it, is how most people meet.
From this uncertain beginning…a relationship extends
They find they have a lot in common…
and strangers become friends.
Their friendship is strengthened by laughter, by sharing hopes and dreams,
by holding on to one another as they ride through life’s extremes.
But life is unpredictable…as often is the way…
causing friends to bid adieu…to go their separate ways.
They part amid some sadness, yet happy at what they’ve achieved…
for they have given the gift of friendship,
and friendship they’ve received.
Years slip by until they meet again…this meeting…still tenderhearted
It’s as if there was no loss of time…as if they never parted.
They are experiencing one of life’s wonders…shared happily by old friends…
That friendship has no time limit…that it’s memory never ends.
Yes, old friends understand the secret…new friends will one day learn…
That friendship never says goodbye…
but waits patiently for its return.
