Long Lost Friend
Long Lost Friend
For the first time in forever
he took a long look in the mirror.
Suddenly his reflection
began to come much clearer.
The wrinkles on his face and hands
around his eyes and brow.
Reminders of the yesterdays
that he survived somehow.
Laugh lines etched into his skin
from good times that he knew.
Lines of worry ran so deep
he thought he'd never make it through.
Scars from battles he had fought.
One reminder of a fall.
A grateful tear fell from his eye
he had survived it all.
He saw the times that he had grieved
and other tears he cried.
When somewhere love had reached an end
or a loved one that had died.
Somehow looking there he saw
a heart still on the mend.
As he looked into the mirror
and found his long lost friend.
Edwin C Hofert
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