DISPATCHES.

How transient relationships,
And fleeting our acquaintances;
How speedily fresh fingertips
Advise how crisp existence is.

Friendships formed by nursery greetings,
Forged in school and college speeches,
Used to grant a business meeting
Then left upon career’s beaches.

Colleagues floating thru the work place,
Keen to latch onto your highway,
Eager ‘til promotions surface
Then migrated on life’s byways.

Lovers rolling in the morning,
Leaving as the evening calls;
Another falling to the awning
That projects beyond your walls.

Family fed and watered well,
Turned into you and your newborn,
Then gone before the carousel
Has time to stop and mourn.