Friend
We met
in our twenties,
an electrical engineering firm.
We were so very different-
you, clean cut, music: John Denver,
me, already divorced, hooked on Janis Joplin.
Two Brooklyn girls, staying put, uncomfortable with change.
Each mistakenly thought the other had confidence in herself.
Over lunches we discovered certain sarcasm in speech and humor.
We loved movies–different ones–books–different genres, crosswords, and Scrabble.
In the course of living our different lives, forty years of friendship
has endured, widened, made each of us more flexible, moving toward our middle.
Written for: http://poetryblog.blogspot.com/first verse/poets united
Each sentence increases by a word.
Janis Joplin. You’re dating yourself. Like, my era.
Like, right!
I love this, how you started out as friends being very different (but you couldn’t have been all that different inside or you never would have formed a bond) and as time went on you began to grow toward the middle….each of you to mellow, keeping that bond! Enjoyed what you did with this prompt.
Thanks, Mary!
This must be for someone very special.
She is.
You introduce the relationship so nicely and add details to show the special nature of what has grown over the years. I really like this.
Thanks, Kim!
OH how lucky you are!
Yes, I truly am.
This is great, I could very easily identify with this as I have a few friends just like that!! Thanks!!
Thanks, Kathleen!
A great tale of friendship
Thanks, GS!
You tell a compelling story, making me stick with you to the end. However, I wonder if you would consider changing “themselves” to “herself,” since you are, after all, talking about one woman thinking about another woman, and unless the woman in question has MPD, she is only one self and not several!
Whirling with W.B. Yeats
Thanks, I am glad you noticed that.