Hello Again

I met him when I was seven--
it was only a lifetime ago.
We're strangers to each other
in a poetically perfect sense.
What do kids really remember
from their elementary years?

Turtles come to mind, in the pin
he gave me and the one we fed.
Raw hamburger meat brought from home
fed the creature left behind
entrusted to our seven-year hands.
Otherwise, I remember his name.

But, it is fun to meet someone new
even when we've really met before.
Its nice to see what others became
while our own lives run slow motion
toward the same tomorrow that we had
yesterday and today once more.