Spoken word by the spiritual poet

Recently, within the past 2 months, I lost 3 friends who I knew from back-in-the-day. I wrestle with my emotions as they still run rampant and have not quite settled back to a place of normalcy. Because, I think of them in the warm sunshine and bright sunlight of my youth from my yesterdays and yesteryears, and it brings me great joy and delight to know for a moment, for a breath, our lives intersect and we shared the same time and space.

It’s amazing how those yesterdays and yesteryears in grammar school, high school, and college just seems like yesterday. But it’s been awhile and we’ve not heard from each other and have not seen each other face-to-face for quite some time. All I have are the signature songs, moments and memories, and pictures from the past progression of our graduating classes and our crew. For I have not seen your sons and daughters. I have not seen your children who are now grown men and grown women, and I have not seen you become the awesome accomplished father, husband, mother, and wife and contributor to our community and greater society at large.

For those of you who are still alive and know me, I am not the same. Like you, time has changed us on a number of fronts. Know that you are deeply missed and loved by me as a brother, sister, and as a neighbor and former community dweller. While COVID-19 lingers overhead, let us not squander the time we’ve been granted. Let us be intentional, reach out and touch each other with a word of encouragement, word of life, and word of light in this season. Be well, be safe, and know that you are in my thoughts.