Friendship

Light filters flickering
Sun beams landing and tracing
Through windows
Through trees
Across our faces and arms

Laughing as our hair
Whips across our cheeks
Heads thrown back
Like there’s no yesterday and no tomorrow
Only today

Music weaves its way between our words
A conversation as natural as breathing
Pauses as rich as talking
Remember when?
How could I forget?

The smell of green and growing in the air
A regeneration –
After the harshness and the cold
And the separation that happens in hard times –
The past washes off like water

Fields and flowers bow in the wake of our car and our friendship
As the world flies past and the wheels
Carry us further away from everything
Down dusty side-roads, under a blue sky
And onwards.

Copyright 2018 by Amanda Font