Memories Don't Stop

When I was growing up I just wanted to finish school

I hung in there

Through the best and worst of times

I knew one thing was true

No matter who you were and where you came from

You had to go to school

Your friends and even your enemies were some how mixed together

The years passed and like everything else nothing lasts forever

We all went our separate ways

Life goes on

Our own families grew

Soon even the friends that you knew seemed gone out of the picture

Until the creation of facebook

You would never know what happened to who

So now some classmates made the effort to keep in touch

While others could give a damn

A reunion was set

A special one in the twenty seventh year

One that only the class of 1983 can say

They have broke tradition and did their own thing

Unfortunately only a small number of classmates could make it

Even though is was in a local paper and friends told friends

Some were busy

Others had plans

Some wouldn't have bothered to come anyway

Because they felt those days were over

They got burned too bad like a Thanksgiving turkey cooked well well done

My memories might not have been so good either

But time has a great way of making them disappear

Lost loves are like water under the bridge

Still too muddy and not to clear

I am not sure I remembered who was who

Time has taken its toll

We all are getting old

Thank God for our children who  keep us young

As long as college tuition doesn't bankrupt us first

I think I must have done to much drinking and drugs and smoked a lot of wacky weed

If it wasn't for name tags I would have been totally lost

I said hi and some knew me and I am still trying to place them

Other classmates I never met and now we got to know each other almost three decades later

Life is full of surprises and it never ceases to amaze me

I just know some friends could still dance

I never could

So some things never change

Some classmates were the life of the party and always will be

Even if others only knew me as the kid passing from class to class

Another student sitting way in back out of the teachers sight

Reminiscing was fun and my spelling still sucks after all these years

It is incredible how many things can become a blurr

I am glad those days are over and we are all older and maybe smarter now

Who cares we can't run to catch a pass to save our ass

Put on those old skates and go so fast or even shoot to make a basket

If your like me who is glad just to get up every morning

Thanking the stars or the Heavens above

With too many close calls with death

I can't count them all

Just to see a familiar face

A friendly smile, a hug, or a handshake will do

You are probably one of my classmates who don't even know me

I was the quiet one who never made honors classes

Failed French time after time and was to stupid to quit

Was lucky enough to play a sport and knows what it is like to come in last

Years later I am still struggling to make ends meet

Watching the years roll by

Looking at those who kept their beauty

I want to know their secrets

I walk a little slower and have ten times more pain when I get up

Lost a lot more hair than I care to mention

I have gained a few extra pounds and I couldn't hide it when I tried to squeeze into my old suit

Thanks God for belts and buttons that don't pop

I was one of the lucky ones

Because I have got the chance to share memories with my dearest friends who have done well

You never know what life has in store for us

But a few drinks at the bar seemed to be a cure of all evils

Until the next day when reality strikes and I have to go back to work

Thanks to all my classmates

I am proud to say I graduated from R.H.S. class of 83 !!!