K: two friends tonight

Two friends tonight
Two phone calls, true
Parallel lives they are not
Each unwinding separately
Along the path of live hopes.
United in my mind
Only
Two sets of emotions
Two fragile hearts
Yet sturdy still
A baby
And three children
The children disconnected this time
The baby
Unknowingly
In the thick of it
And perhaps the cause
Still in my babyless, temporarily coupleless house
These times
The second hand moves slowly
Pausing awhile
On my dreams
Of friends and their dreams
What passes for the path of life
Once simple
Now complex
The other always complex
Now both less and more so at once
My life as voyeur
Witness to these events
Helpless and thus helpful
sometimes
Waiting for Saturday
And the summer
A bottle of wine
To share
The harmony in the discord
When minds connect
On difficult subjects
In turbulent times
Cutting through
To the core of life
And love.