Life is a mystery… <br />In each crossroads, I’ve met people, forgotten who and how they were to me. <br />Most often, I don’t even remember how I was with them. <br />And I didn’t mind. <br /> <br />Years have abandoned my youth, abandoned my carefree attitude… <br />I am now getting old. <br /> <br />TO MY SURPRISE… <br /> <br />I look behind and see faces and silhouettes of acquaintances… <br />Known to me somewhere in the past. <br />I bestowed… <br />I passed-on, walked-by through those apparently insignificant years. <br /> <br />I have to confess… <br /> <br />I need to go back through those years of my life <br />I’ve stayed devoted… <br />To see faces of friends, to revisit those places I’ve been, <br />To recollect the souvenirs of my college days. <br /> <br />My vision got blurred; tears fell and curiously my lips open with a smile, <br />This second encounter is inevitably reviving, <br />Gives me hope to my yearning… <br />To see again my friends <br />That had partaken my unforgettable years. <br /> <br />NOW I REALIZED… <br /> <br />Friends are treasures that keep me rich with memories, <br />Whatever the years and the distance might taken aback… <br />My heart excitedly beats to the thoughts that I will see them again <br />My long, lost dear friends… <br /> <br />No matter how life had been to all of us… <br />Neither it had strengthen us up or had bended our bodies <br />What counts most is that we are what we are… <br />Sharing our today’s and tomorrow’s destinies.<br /><br />VIRGINIA PECHO GELY<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/second-encounter/
