I SAW YOU TODAY.....

I sighed when I

Opened the book

Knowing I’d be sad

After taking a look

I saw you today

Tasseled cap and gown
Bright eyes full of hope
Nothing to hold you down

I saw you in my memory

The dreams we had

The world at our feet

Oh what plans we had

Hoping…Dreaming…

On the edge of our lives

Sixty-two of us

In nineteen sixty-five

I heard of your fates
I know many are gone
One by one
Twice, sadly, two by one…

Some went to war

Last seen that day
Never to be seen evermore
But I saw you today

Dreams realized
Dreams shattered
Dreams were just that
Dreams that mattered

I know how life turned out
For only a few
Only a few
Of sixty-two

Today I am thinking
About taking a look
For the remnant of classmates
On MySpace and Facebook

Would the remnant want
Same as me
To know how dreams
Turned out for these?

Looking through my high school album
Remembering… Mostly sorry I looked
Nothing is the same

As it was in this book

The same as you were

I saw you today
Yes – I saw you today
But sadness did not allow me to stay

I place the book on the shelf
I whisper to you ~ I’ll come back
To revisit you all in my memory….
Another day, yes, I’ll be back

Darlene Cirinna
August 10, 2009