9 Elementary Bond

Old friend,
It has been three decades since we met
On the playground in the winter of second grade.
Who would have thought that we would make it
To ripe old 35: half of life’s cycle exhausted.
We were both so shy back then, and never thought
What things would be like so far ahead.
Did you imagine a kinship with me?
I look forward now and wonder:
What will the game’s second half bring?
For now it is like being a child yet again:
We want to look ahead, but cannot even begin
To know what age 70 might be like.
Indeed, now as then, it hard to apply such a number to us.