woodandhoney

If I had known you when you were an infant

I would have looked at you and smiled

I would have hummed you a lullaby and played in the meadows with you.

If I had been your friend when you were a child

I would have shared my lunch with you, climbed trees with you, built forts with you.

If I had known you when you were in college

We would have gone to football games together, had study sessions together and art nights.

I wish I had known you earlier so I could have asked you out to dinner,

slept in with you and had late Sunday breakfasts with you.

But I didn’t.

I know you now with the gulf of 20 years between us so I smile when you talk about your wife and quietly drink my ice water.

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