For ten years we ran
From your house to mine
Dodging cars to street-cross
To the sidewalk beyond
Sometimes we ran
From my house to yours
Wishing for sidewalk
On our shady side of the street
Sometimes we’d walk
And sometimes we’d run
Day after day
Through drizzly rain, steamy sun
Years pass and schedules change
Those partner runs are sadly gone
Often when I run alone
I think how time flies on.
Then, on a solo run to start today
I saw: finally the sidewalk is complete.
I can indeed run from my house to
yours
All along the sidewalk on our
side of the street
But now that that there’s
sidewalk
From my house to yours
You don’t live there
Anymore.
