Childhood Memory

That song just triggered a memory about a young boy
who often climbed the tree outside our apartment

and with that toothy smile would ask my mom if I could play. 

And off we'd go making adventures -- imagined and real 

Sometimes learning new things as serious scientists. 

Then came the painful summer when he told me 

His mom was taking him to Greece for the whole break.

We sat on our back porch stairs, not knowing how to say goodbye. 

We wrote as much as we could with the then snail mail

His letters to me were so descriptive about a place I thought I'd never visit.

We couldn't wait to see each other when he returned

And our imaginations ran wild about the future 

because we didn't like being apart 

But life marched on

Bringing separate paths, building separate lives

But the childhood memories live on without regrets.