Lunch with friends
let's eat at a place
where bitterness ends
and happiness waits

where intercourse conquers
the sorrow and pain
of lives lived in hardship
and burdened by fate

Lunch with friends
who falter with grace
as youthfulness ends
and understanding creates

Where sharing conquers
Lonliness's reign
over hearts longing for kinship
in all they relate.

Lunch with friends
nothing stays
save the love that we send
and the joy that we state.

Copyright 2006 Pierre Ortega