Let's Raise a Glass in December

This is my entry for Babs Iverson's "Ask Me in December" challenge. Here is the link

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Ask me in December

about the party in September.

The one you missed when life had other plans.

Talk to me some future day,

and I’ll regale that night in May,

when the choice to come was taken from your hands.

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Let’s chat about that time in March,

when yet again, we were apart,

by circumstances out of our control.

I’ll thank you for that day in June,

when your welcome hug helped to ease the gloom,

of grief that overwhelmed my tattered soul.

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Life surely flies by on a breeze.

Quicker, with every breath it seems.

On our best laid plans, so often there's a wrench.

There was a time, so far away,

we laughed together every day.

A friendship through the ages, we've entrenched.

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Now the times together we do spend,

are few and far between, my friend.

Please know, I’ll always love you just the same.

Let's raise a glass in December,

and toast the warm days we remember,

when youth was ours and life was just a game.