Sitting at the rooftop coffee shop,

People around us we silently watch.

Are they all just as happy as us?

Sharing their life over coffee thus.

A lifetime nearly since we three are friends,

Though now we reside at different ends.

Having come on work to their town now,

Allows us to catch up on life somehow.

Would you want to live life, over now?

Sipping on my peach ice tea slowly I ask.

Going back to college do you think?

We could once again bring back the zing.

Digging into her blueberry muffin she sighs.

The fancy free days and the multiple date,nights.

When classes we missed for movies and café’s.  

Would do anything to get them back again.

Life is now much less fun,

Duties, responsibilities we cannot shun.

Wife, mother, daughter all in one,

Being a boss is the most difficult one.

After a sip of her Café Latte the other smiles,

Remember that guy with the crush on you, now?

The other who chased me in and out of class.

It all seems now so much of the past.

With old friends like this one can really be,

Only “ME” – from all else truly free.

Sharing our failings with each other now,

We step down being superwomen somehow.

The guys who chased us all over town,

Married to us chase their careers now.  

Children too once grown, will leave,

On our friendship may we still then lean.

Life’s road often is steep and uphill,

Holding each others hand we trudge on still.

Why can’t we again honestly be?

Carefree like we once used to be.