friends and boys

Friends and boys

Three happy boys sat on a wooden fence
laugh ting at the world, one of them had no shoes
but that was of no worry now
they were active boys who knew where the bananas
were kept in this town and other
useful things
they were so very white, this is because the sun
stays away in narrow streets of poverty
In a few months, they would be thirteen, and many
things would change where they lived, they would
be seen as adults, but they had sworn to keep
together for all time.
they knew what they had to do to be successful
to work for men in suits, do what was needed
and climb up the ladder.
the old man, woke up in the night feet hurt
like he had walked an ungritted road
He arose quietly so as

 not to disturb his wife
in the kitchen, he made a coffee, thought of
the old days and wondered if his two friends
were still alive