Memorials

FRIENDS

I look around me

and see all my friends,

hear their voices and

their laughter through the years.

They move not as quickly

nor quite as spryly

as they did long ago.

Wasn’t it just yesterday?

I now walk where once I ran.

My hair (Where did all that gray come from?)

isn’t quite as black as it once was.

My friends and I sit and talk

of yesterday, and as we sit,

children come and call to them

saying, “Grandfather! Grandfather!”

And as we talk I think of friends

that now I see only in memory,

only in my heart;

For they have had to travel on.

Their laughter, their tears,

their hopes and their fears

have all passed on,

but as long as we remember them,

they are near.

by

Jimmy Clay (1943-2005)

Fair Park Class of 1961

~We Remember~

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