A GATHERING OF FRIENDS

A GATHERING OF FRIENDS

What a time they must be having

for how they loved to talk.

I can see them gathering

maybe ambling side by side.

Surely it would have to be in a garden

for it was in a garden

that each of them was happiest. 

To touch the earth 

and let it fall through their fingers..

they were then content.

Even those I did not know

they tell me they, too, loved the soil, 

the wind and rain upon their face..

or the sunlight playing on their hair.

Can you imagine the conversations - 

who did what and when and where?

Their laughter shall echo through time

for they all had such a sense of humour. 

What a gathering they must be having, 

our loved ones, in Heaven.

(c) Crissouli 1982

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