Remembering then, remembering when: we shared a story, we shared a piece of memory.

Two people, two friends, late night, cake fights.

How did it start, a box of egg tarts.

A taunt, a joke, a laugh, choke.

Then laughter, merriment, motions and movements – faster and faster.

A beautiful mess of things is exactly what our friendship brings.

I remembered the lights and sounds

Your laughter rang loud in the midst of the ghost town.

That was years ago, and I have long lost the joke

But we were lost that night, drowning in booze, rum and coke.

I only know I laughed and laughed, I couldn’t stop.

Something about you, something about us, something about that night in the starry sky, lost in the darkness, lost in that moment.

I know now what I didn’t then

It wasn’t the joke, it wasn’t the beer,

It was that hope, it was living without fear

I know now what I didn’t then

The memories here in my head and the jokes that I said

…the memory couldn’t have beaten the company

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