Warriors laugh and eat
as gentle snow starts to fall
on the streets outside
Warriors laugh and eat
as gentle snow starts to fall
on the streets outside
Not a single star in the sky
Just heavy grey clouds
The air is cold in a way that doesn’t hurt
But instead wakes us as we laugh
Outside the dojo space and time tonight
…
There were friends there.
I think there were so many friends there.
Surrounded, surrounded!
Some smiled with their eyes.
Some surprised me with their remembrance.
Most, I barely knew.
I turn my thoughts backwards,
steering into nearby memories of
that gathering place now behind me,
gently observing through my mind’s eye.
…