Reunion
(written as i drove to my Wylie High School class of 1988 ten year reunion)

it's so strange
          to look around
and see the faces
              of so many people
          I once knew . . .

people who were
              so important
in laying the foundations
           for who I grew to be.

we've all traveled
          so many paths in the past years . . .

some of us followed well laid plans . . .
                      and others
turned in directions
           that we could have never foreseen
                       all those years ago.

yet each of us
         has found success
in our own ways . . .
       achieving our dreams
                    or
  finding new ones along the way.

we've married . . .
               had children . . .
                       taken jobs and careers . . .
yet much of who we are
       and much of our success
we owe to that shared
       common history . . .

growing up in the same small town . . .
         playing on those same fields of dreams . . .
                and working through the same classes . . .
all those years ago.