As Our Birthdays Loom: A Reverie, a poem by Rose Anna Higashi at Spillwords.com

As Our Birthdays Loom

As Our Birthdays Loom

A Reverie

written by: Rose Anna Higashi

 

What about the time we hiked into the jungle in Rwanda
To sit on the ground with the gorillas
Before that beautiful country got butchered
By one of the bloodiest civil wars of all time?
What about that night in Tonniere at that three-star
Restaurant out in the country in France
When for some reason we were the only diners,
And the whole staff stood, politely watching,
While we ate the best meal of our lives?
And then there was our evening at the Sistine Chapel
When our little group got the place all to ourselves
With all the other tourists locked out.
We got to look up at God with no one jostling us.
Were these all just lucky moments,
Events we did nothing to deserve?
What else have we done, that anyone at all might remember?
Some scientific advances on your part,
Some good days in the classroom and a pile of poems for me,
And parenting. Only our son can say if we succeeded at that.
For now, maybe our best memory is this morning’s glorious pink sunrise over the ocean,
And tomorrow, we’ll remember summer’s full orange moon through the palm trees
Spreading night’s light across the sea.

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