A part of each other’s design
If you and I instead
Of tears and tantrums, laughter
Highs and lows
The sunny uplands and the dark despond
A tale told by an idiot
Wielding a wizard’s wand
If you and I instead
Were warp and weft
Of silk and multi-coloured thread
Part of a whole unknowable
Forming on the frame
As shuttle and bobbin
Click and clack
Three rows forward, three rows back
Then here, down the years
Ourselves new mothers, tantrums, fears
When you and I were daily
Frequent friends
Touching and interwoven
A part of each other’s design
How lovely the colours and texture
Rich and deep, splash and sparkle
Dance together twirl and twine
Yours and mine
Intermingled lives and threads
Forever
A part of each other’s design
If you and I instead
Of tears and tantrums, laughter
Highs and lows
The sunny uplands and the dark despond
A tale told by an idiot
Wielding a wizard’s wand
If you and I instead
Were warp and weft
Of silk and multi-coloured thread
Part of a whole unknowable
Forming on the frame
As shuttle and bobbin
Click and clack
Three rows forward, three rows back
Then here, down the years
Ourselves new mothers, tantrums, fears
When you and I were daily
Frequent friends
Touching and interwoven
A part of each other’s design
How lovely the colours and texture
Rich and deep, splash and sparkle
Dance together twirl and twine
Yours and mine
Intermingled lives and threads
Forever
A part of each other’s design
14th June 2011, Hounoux, for Linda T with love
Love this Sally and what a beauutiful lady. Such a gentle face.
ReplyDeleteThank you Pam for your comment. Linda is an old friend from the days when we were struggling with small children and with both births and sudden deaths (she lost her mum and we lost Thomas at that time). As you know lives change and people move on, in our case to serious work commitments and children in very different schools. We went to their Ruby wedding last August if you remember. It has been just wonderful having her and her lovely husband Stuart here for a week, with Rosie and Luca and Jay also. Rosie gave her a treatment(she is a scientist but a big acupuncture fan) and Luca absolutely fell in love with 'Linna'!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful poem to capture a significant relationship, a friendship over time. xx
ReplyDeleteWe are so fortunate aren't we, Jude and Pam, to have significant relationships- not least with each other-which have endured and changed over time as our lives have gone in different directions. You and I and then Pam and I were very much 'daily' friends but only for a small number of years whilst we worked together. It is such a wonderful spin-off of our living here in France that we get to re-connect with people and spend real quality time with them.
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