friend poem

i have known the silence of the stars and of the sea
like him whose spirit in the blaze of noon
do you think, my boy, when i put my arms around you
she heard the children playing in the sun
i am a woman
you are my companion
under the harvest moon
be in me as the eternal moods
the single clenched fist lifted and ready
from song and dream for ever gone
eighty years have passed, and more