.
I suppose it is an adventure
to NOT fall off a chair,
but I was seeking
more positive adventures than that.
.
So…
.
Today I searched for an old friend
and found him… in my memories…
still young and funny and frozen in time amid an abundance of hope
and the world spread out before him like a picnic blanket.
.
He was seventeen when last I saw him
getting drunk with me on cheap Ripple wine behind the red barn
showing me his latest sketches and pictures of his latest paintings
and telling me that his girlfriend of four years had broken up with him.
.
Three weeks later it was in the newspaper
a tiny four line story on the second page and that was all
about that lonely little dark and desolate house down the street
where he had hung himself and all his hopes.
.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~©2017 Susan Williams.
An Abundance Of Hope
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