created for Chezza

I am lucky enough, from time to time, to come upon women who simply make me feel at ease, without any of the normal processes and timescales that this entails. In the Gym, it took me years at first to make friends, and as it began to get easier, COVID happened.

Chezza and I are the first real friendship post-COVID to have stuck. She is there almost as much as I am, which always helps, and her attitude to everything is just the right combination of comfort and humour. Everyone needs a mate from time to time to talk about stuff with over a cuppa and a breakfast roll.

This was also the last poem that I wrote in this sequence.

Table 8

here  is where mindsets  are exercised
where two pasts         are ever present
for we are instruments     that shine
        reminders in Lycra with coffee
        of rare beauty         in the graft

let me explain      the problem
and you’ll become    solutions
not only helpful      but strong
                   molten memories live on
acceptance              of two histories 

a table            of joyful contents
chatting babies  wisdom sound
our halves  perfectly in balance
    that this circle     is our world
and it is far more than   enough
    

Poem copyright S. Reeson © 2026

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