On the bench

♫ ♫Old friends, old friends
Sat on their park bench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
Of the high shoes of the old friends


Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settles like dust on the shoulders of the old friends


Can you imagine us years from today
Sharing a park bench quietly
How terribly strange to be seventy


Old friends, memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fears ♪ ♫