Old Friends

"Why do we need this photograph again?"
"Just to remind ourselves....
 When we are eighty and old and woolly in our heads..."
"Remind us of what?"
"That we were so perfectly young together."

Here We Begin Again

And perhaps the only way to begin again is... to just begin,
Awkwardly,
Stumbling,
Without polished charm or grace,
No more sure of your footing than a toddler on his first escapade,
No more wiser, than when you left....
Just begin again,
With a soft "hello, I'm here again...
Hopefully, you'll want me to stay.
Here we begin again."