Conversations With a Friend

A poem

The conversations with a friend About what both of us intend The disregard for life’s curfews Free exchange of honest views.

Able to speak openly Nothing that you hide from me And more than pure chance should allow Know what I am thinking now.

The unconditional attention Nothing is too much to mention And we find ourselves quickly at ease Seeing what each other sees.

Mental junk quickly discarded Guises gone we are unguarded As free as children in a dream But wiser with what we have seen.

But for fading of the light There is no day and neither night Of time we are only aware When one of us must disappear.

Haltingly we disengage Gather our things and turn the page Both trying to delay the end Of conversations with a friend.