It's You

Gazing into long lost eyes
Gentleness returns
In memories soaked in tears
Yet brightened by a smile
The bittersweet recollections of long ago

Parted in youth
Different roads journeyed
Reunited at the crossroads
In a time of transition
In a time of renewal

Late in the evening
At a dining room table
Fighting fear and worry
With milk and cookies
For a friend near death

Solace
Eases teenage pain
A gentle presence
to my fractured heart
The hand of freindship

It all comes back
years later
in middle age
so much has happened
yet she is still an angel