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
