Yesterday in the terrace

Yesterday my friends

and I

sat around the table

talking laughing

drinking discussing

Chavy taking pictures

of us around the table

Marjan explaining

the many years

we have known each other

we all agreed on the view

from the terrace

and on the terrace itself

welcoming in Summer

an ideal get together place

Godeke and Schelto

left early as announced

they had tickets

for the opera

at the Concertgebouw

Yvonne was quiet

during our discussion

of political affairs

in Argentina

she would have

rather discussed

European affairs

the why and because

of Greece’s misadventures

Chavy and I traced

what we understood

to be

the origin of political

mismanagement in Argentina

the silence today

echoes yesterday’s voices

the laughter

the well being

and our missing

Monique and Lucas

who were not present

but were with us

all the same.