and Photo by Ms. Barb Thomas

Did We Change Your Life?

by Mr. Robert N. Olive

Did we change your life, as much as you changed ours, at that place of joy in Maine, under the Milky Way stars?

Did you fall in love with us, as much as we fell in love with you, near Keyes Pond with the loons, and the girls of gray and blue?

Was it a speech that was given, was it a song that we sang, was it a Junior or a Senior, or the way the bell would clang and clang?

Did we make you smile, as much as you made us laugh, during a campfire or a softball game, or playing Scrabble with the staff?

Did I change your life, as much as you changed mine? It was Tapawingo you lived for, it is Tapawingo you are remembered for, but it is you, Jane, we will miss more.

by Ms. Barb Thomas