They Would Have Laughed In the Rain

They would have laughed in the rain

They would have danced in the sunshine

They would have written long letters

They would have elegantly dined

And had they known their future

Was not to lay ahead

Their time together ending too soon

Maybe they'd not left things unsaid

Maybe they would have spoken tender words

Maybe they would have spilled their hearts out

Comforted each other with kindness

They would have loved more, no doubt

Naida Lavon

Aug. 7, 2022

10 min. write

Prompt: "they would have laughed in the rain"

from Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Thinking of my friend, Robert Hanson, who died

of HIV/AIDS in1991