Remember Me?

Reunion

I know you

Just cannot put a name to your face

Do you know me?

I am the girl with the happy heart

Who likes to joke around

Who hates Latin

Who loves poetry

Who has dreams for the future

Who I will be one day.

I know you all

You are the math whiz

You are the one who shared your candy bar

You are the one who was a cheerleader

You are the one who was the nun’s pet

You are the one who was pregnant as we graduated

You are the one was going to be a nun

You are all the ones who are my friends.

Let’s go to the sock hop

Let’s get a group together for that movie

Let’s drive down to the beach and ride the waves

Let’s just have fun.

I remember you, but what is your name?

What have you been doing for fifty years?

Did you find your soul mate?

Did you have beautiful, successful children?

How is it now that you have grandchildren?

Did your life turn out like it was to be in your dreams?

Carol

Nancy

Maurie

Kathy

Colleen

And yes

Corinne

Who are these women with graying hair

These old women who I cannot place

Names and familiar faces

All known but unknown

A stroll down Memory Lane

Times gone by that live in my recollections

Can we go back…I think not

But we can gather and remember

FIFTIETH YEAR REUNION

©Corinne Mustafa

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