Together We Started

Young, we started life together but fate forked us separate ways: Some folks continued while others dropped out at the elementary. On and on we were done with the competitions of the basic days; Andrew became a schoolmaster and Aggrey a sly entrepreneur, Augustine became a man of science treating and mending the sick. And I became a tottering tinkerer of prose and a weaver of rhymes. I still wish to know what became of the boys we called Peter and Dick…