poetry

1/3/21 - my two boys and me

memory's magnetic force
snapped us together

for a moment--united
a trio once more

'be cool'--though I tried
for a moment I measured

our friendship in inches
'tween my head and yours

then slipped for a moment
to late Thursday nights

to ceiling bibles, scary movies,
to jokes on my height

but the glue fell apart
as our eyes clicked together

and time slipped between
all the cracks in the floor

when he walked out the church
towards another adventure

there we were--in a moment,
a pair like before

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