A Poem

To KB

Today I drove across miles

and miles

of a sagebrush blanketed land--

flat, not a tree in sight,

mountains in the distance,

the sky even bigger than the huge land

around me--

I thought of you,

wondered what you saw at this very moment--

dense tropical green, more lush

than I'll ever see.

What sounds,

smells

in that foreign place?

When we were children

we played together,

side by side,

year after year.

Now life's winds have

blown you far,

so far--

I cannot see in my mind's eye

the place you've now landed.

I in a desert,

you in a jungle--

distances beyond fathom

to girls playing paper dolls.

Yet the bond remains

across miles and years--

the views

out our windows

now so dissimilar.