Where Were You?

Hmm…

And by the sandy sea

Monkey jokes all day long

 

Here we are

And the rain is halfway clean

The memories are as old as they can be

Take the time to pour down in sheen, in theme

What plans we are making

What monies we are taking

 

We showed up

Where were you, kids?

Excuse it if they’re all of me

 

And where are you?

What can you do

That’s more important

More forward

Then this?

 

Where were you?

If we bar hopped

We’d find everyone

 

We sang old songs

That didn’t seem so old anymore

And we sang them

Along with the required ‘air guitar’

 

Where were you?

Was the rain too much?

It kept you away

The showers torn down on us

The roads were just a mess

Needless to say we decided

That this night was the best

 

I whispered in their ears

Cuz the band made too much noise

Donate to the monkeys

After our poise

One by one we stepped out

Not exactly in that order

Next time you’d better be there

All our high school soldiers

Of the patch quilt coal cracker confounded muddle spread out from Alaska to far yonder and such and so

And everything in between

We made it, got together

Next time you’d best all be there…

Reviews

[lee von cleef]

And such and so, tart ,sweet, what we had, and to give it all back to who is and is not there so good to share, thank you.

[Marie Anzalone]

Nostalgia woven through this... hard to tell f you are speaking to one person who was never "all there" on your adventures, or to several fellow adventurers who have refused to show up later for life. Haunting and very evocative.

[gombeggar]

thank u...u just about have the quit together

[gombeggar]

er...just about have the 'quilt knitted together, i mean