Re-Connecting

The other day i got a message on facebook,

Someone had sent me a friend request!

The name seemed unfamiliar

But his picture, though a little altered,

By the receding hairline,

Or the mark left by the passage of time

On his countenance,

Left me in no doubt that

Here was my long lost friend of yester-years!

 

Twenty years had flown by,

Leaving us separated by miles!

He had settled on the west coast while

I had set up shop on the eastern frontiers of India.

 

The phone rang and both of us,

Delighted at having found each other

Impatiently Kept interrupting

 and cutting into the other’s words!

 

We filled each other up

With what had kept us occupied

 in the last twenty years.

And then we both agreed to one thing,

That life had not been as interesting

As it was twenty years back!

 

Twenty years had failed to yield moments,

That match those we had in our childhood!

Those exciting times that we shared in the past,

Only now in our memories will they last!