New chapter, same book

Recently I have rediscovered many friends and connections from the past. I wonder how they got from there to here. With many I have missed a lot of chapters. With some, it seems, they have erased a number of chapters, maybe even think they have started a new book. Still... it's all connected and it all counts. New chapter, same book.

My friends and connections

Have mostly moved

Into new chapters

With subtitles

I never would have thought of,

So many chapters

Written it seems

In new vernacular.

I know

The connecting points

From old to new

Have been there all along.

In this spring of our lives

We unearth new things

Which are not new

At all;

New chapters, perhaps,

But the very same book

We have each been writing

From the beginning.