Reunion

After several summers, we met again In the still slumbering morning light Looking at each other in dazed silence With the delectable kick of an evanescent dream. The vile tricks Time had wrought Did change both you and me In the place of dimpled ruddy cheeks Dreamy eyes and soft creamy skin I saw crumpled, saggy face Lustreless eyes and wrinkled skin. Much has slipped between the seams! How I watched you struggle hard To hide the shock far too obvious When your eyes had hooked on me Altered beyond your wild surmise Gazing at each other, dumb we stood Two travellers at a wayside inn To part after a brief respite With the past trampled under our feet The present sneering at our face And the future hovering above our heads. At what infinitesimal time Has this wonder transpired? The creases, suddenly ironed out The wrinkles all smoothed down Brilliance shot back to hazy eyes The plump, rotund body Into sleek hour glass figure turned Hot blood rushed through the veins And a new energy throbbed the muscles Once again our nimble limbs Danced in tune to the fast beats Once more we were made Those agile girls of fickle teens Who hid a thousand rosy dreams In the ivory caskets of their minds And flew on wings of easeful abandon, To far fairylands and gardens green.