A perfect Autumn pick me up
on a wet and windy weekend
a long overdue lunch date
catching up with an old friend

We met each other at school
who could have known back in the day
that forty four years later 
we would still be meeting up this way

We spent a lovely afternoon 
enjoying lunch and a long chat 
the time passed by quickly 
as we reminisced about this and that 

It’s been five years since we last met
it may well have been yesterday 
whenever we meet up 
it’s like we have never been away 

I can’t help but think to myself 
how very lucky we are
to share a lifelong friendship
no matter how near or how far

We may look and feel a bit older
than we did all those years ago
but when we get together 
we are those teenagers we used to know