If We Were Still Together Poem by Diana van den Berg

If we were still together
I would tell you how lovely it was
to spend my usual Sunday evening
at my son’s house for supper
and how when I came home,
I was looking forward
to the mutual adoring welcome
of Benji-barks and Cleo-meeows
waiting for me at the door
as soon as I opened it,
but that tonight there was also
a glorious magnum-mass choir
of my froggy friends
singing me a joyous exhilarating welcome
from somewhere nearby.
This I would tell you
if we were still together...

(24 July 2011)