Friendship Park

Meet me in Richmond at Friendship Park

Let's take a stroll along the Bay

Hold hands into the dark

We'll leave our past behind us

Take the Richmond Plunge

and watch lights from the bridges

glow starry-eyed into the sun 

We've come along way together, baby

Watched miners lose their gold

Surfed Santa Cruz beaches til we were cold

Lost black pearls in San Jose

never won the game of love

But there's still time for one more drive on the Bohemian Highway

Find a car that works for you

Don't tell everyone what you do

Keep your secrets to yourself

Maybe there's honey in the window

on the kitchen shelf

Maybe we've still got time to turn these dirty streets into pretty rhymes

Call me when you're home at night

We can go dancing any time you'd like

Or down to the river in your favorite spot where the bridge touches the pines over a sandy lot

Fish are fading away so fast

But our friendship is here to last, girl

Our friendship was built to last

Let's take another drive out to Friendship park

The sky is pink candy in a bluebird's mouth

Boys in their cars playing their favorite tunes

But you and me, baby

We will dance the path of love

Under the Richmond moon

We will dance the path of love

Under the Rich man's moon

Part of a Creative Writing Project: Letters to Geographer 2015-2016