A Sonnet For  Rey

When all is quiet

and all I remember is a young man

in brown leather jacket;

whose curly black hair

was dripped in rain shower,

his eyes looking straight right at mine.

So shy I can’t look back,

But deep in my heart,

I know I had wanted to know him.

Yet young as I was

And scared of the future,

I said “no”, and then bade him goodbye.

He walked out the door,

his eyes kept on blinking

from tears that he forced not to drop.

And I in my bedroom

Was quietly thinking,

Had I been a fool?,

I hoped not.

Now thirty years later

Our paths crossed again.

At Facebook we met

Friendship flourished.

For though in our youth days

we lacked certain courage,

as we aged  we found self-esteem.

Now gone are the barriers

that kept us from knowing

what really matters in life.

We share all life’s lessons

we’ve learned on our journey

and thankful that now we found time.

Time to be friends now,

Time to be laughing

At youth’s wistful errors and ways.

And though we can never

go back to that heyday

we’re thankful at least

we have NOW.