Saturday, January 26, 2013

TO FRIENDS - on the first anniversary of RE / VERSE

ellen & mike


TO FRIENDS
by Michael Koehler

This is the time we have left.
These hours that we live, let us
walk a sun-dappled lane
or a summer city sidewalk.

My friends, let us walk a time together.
How is your life, and your happiness?
Please answer for me these most
important questions.

It sometimes seems our troubles
and the days and hours that contain them
overshadow those moments of stillness
where the quiet rings with the peace
of chapel bells that once announced
the approach of dusk, signaling time to
change pace    slow down.
Day is done   night comes.

Let us walk lightly
and we will find the footsteps shared
with friends are not counted against
the sums of our lives.
When we walk, the day stretches farther
than we can see, and when it is time
to leave—it is too soon.

This is the time we have left.
These hours that we live, let us love.


~ first published in Siftings