We meet as friends

We meet as friends
across a table
full of freshly-emptied glasses.
We meet as friends
across a distance
of five years.

We have both journeyed down
the road
to our divergent destinies,
yet we sit around the table
and share the same stale tales
that brought us to laughter
and tears
so many years ago.

We meet as friends
and try to rekindle the moment
when we didn't need to remind ourselves
that we were friends.