The End (June 10, 2009)

Flipping through the pages of the year past
Of chapters and anecdotes
Some frowns, some smiles, iconoclast
Of teachings’ antidotes.

Thus begin with greetings and knowing
Of faces unfamiliar
Lives intertwined yet stories of sharing
Webbed a thread congenial.

Each face speaks, each life unfolds
Of life’s awes and vicissitudes
Bound by work, graciously mold
Children’s minds and attitudes.

Months gone when work fills each day
Of triumphs and small successes.
Still happily rowing through the tide
Of stress and false pretenses.

As I write the last few pages
Of friendship and growing.
Moving fast with each exhales
Of farewells and going.