Flight Time

He stopped the moped at the end of the driveway

A skinny smartass high school sophomore

Too young for a drivers license

Paid for the scooter delivering papers

I  was fresh out of the Navy married to his friend's sister

Living across the street in a nine hundred dollar house trailer.

 

Time flew They joined the army came home with wives and kids.

Tilly moved to Disney's Florida driving tour buses and entertaining tourists

Sid divorced drank and died

Tilly became a close friend

He died last night

Time flies

Without air control men

on a one-way flight route

Memories comfort us

Reviews

[emmajoy]

' Time flies ~ Without air control men ~ on a one-way flight route ~ Memories comfort us ' What a great handful of last lines, running on from a touching look into non-friendship ending in sadness. Your work has varying degrees of strength, always clear, always with heart.

[Sel Whiteley]

THat's incredibly emotive. You've penned this so eloquently. How one minute, decades ago, you're not even friends. The next, you're bereaved of a close friend. A brilliant write and sorry for your loss.

[Phibby Venable]

i really like this one...sense of sadness, time moves relentlessly on