This Poem was Submitted By: Drenda D. Cooper On Date: 2001-03-28 15:24:49 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The Class Reunion

Invisibly the leash that held my mind Was strained and broken so that I might go And mingle with the past, perhaps to find The reason why I feared the future so. The faces I saw there were masks of clay All dried and hardened from such needless fears. And I stood back not knowing what to say... Just drifting with some tune back through the years. I wondered what they thought when they saw me; If I had changed to them...or stayed the same. Then in a light-filled mirror I could see How interchangeably we played our game. We sang and danced and felt the night grow colder; Then each of us left, knowing we'd grown older.

Copyright © March 2001 Drenda D. Cooper

Additional Notes:
This poem was published in the North American Mentor Magazine Vol. XXI, No.2 Summer 1983. It was dedicated to "Nancy."


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