投稿の詳細: お墓参り A memorial meeting

すっかり春の恒例行事になった感がある昔の
友人のお墓参り。32年前紅顔の美男美女だった
新入社員の同期達。若くして逝ってしまった友人を
偲んで今年は12人が集まった。

語り始めると尽きぬ人生の変遷と境遇はしかし
胸にしまって一時昔に帰る。程よい距離感と親近感。
11年前に再会するまではお互い20年ほども会って
いなかった仲間達。

今年は皆で私の田舎に訪ねてくれるそうだ。

It has become an annual event of this season now. A gathering
to visit an old friend’s grave to remember her and pray for her
peaceful rest. We had been shining good looking young men and women
as new employees at a company. This year twelve of us gathered for
the friend who had passed away at her young age.

Each of us, having different lives till today kept so many things to talk
in mind but enjoyed the time together by coming back to the good old days
with comfortable respect to each other. Until eleven years ago, we had seldom
met each other for twenty years after having left the old company.

They are planning to visit me in my home town this year.