OF CONVERSATIONS
FRIENDS & ANGELS
Today
I come to you
In the memory
Of old friends
Conversation
Over lost time
And lost years
That have
Mysteriously
Vanished
In both tragedy
And revelation
Grief
And silence
Detached from
This mere
Mortal coil
To remember them;
They who were
Once here and
They who once loved
And who we all
Once were once
Upon a time long
Ago as well
In a love, a friendship
A moment
Meant with soul
So fiercely
Now
Vauge
Idle
In dreaming
For you see
As we go on
Our minds
Have learned to
Play tricks
Deceptions
In a veil of youth
& passing days
Drunken illusions
And insignificant
Slights now
Forgotten
Replaced by
What was once in our
Hearts our true
Appearance
A realization
That to be human
Is to be flawed
But these things
Are small pins
Needles
Inconsequential
Now forgotten
So in coming years
We shall sit down & remember them
And have a conversation
Like old friends
Should have like
All friends living
Until
Into the light &
The brilliance
Of angels
We go
Onto
To the next
Mortal
Dream
Without remorse
~ R.M. Engelhardt
03.16.2019