Of Ties That Bind

Image: From Left, OPs Adam Tan Sri Aziz, Razali, Akbar, Abdul Aziz (Tan Sri) 

Amir Sharifuddin (Dr) and sitting Amiruddin (Datuk,Dr) Hank snapped the pic.

Note: 1 Six months ago we met for tea hosted by OP Amiruddin (Datuk,Dr)

One could not have really imagined

That we first set eyes way back in 1960

As scraggly school boys to be trained

In a residential school with all things military

And this afternoon we met again

Not of the same vintage

But from the early ‘60s anyway

To renew ties that bind

In keeping with the esprit de corps

Of a military tradition

Now we may not be clean shaven

We may look aged and weather beaten

Very unlike then as school boys of all innocence

Spick and span, smartly dressed in green uniforms

We are now retired from various callings

But the warm friendship we still maintain

With a rendezvous at the Club this morning

For the lost years with grand reminiscences

A big yarn followed by a sumptuous lunch

Courtesy of one who had made it in life

Tan Sri Abdul Aziz happy with his buddies

And he feted Datuk Dr Amir especially

a childhood friend he grew up with

No quiet moment of hours that slipped by

A fleeting moment and then just as fast

It was time to say good-bye!

Note: 2 We were together as school boys in the early 60’s in

a unique residential school administered steep in military

traditions, the RMC (Royal Military College)

We had an informal lunch date hosted by Tan Sri Abdul Aziz

an ex-Deputy Chief Minister, a two-term Senator

in the august House of the Dewan Negara (the Senate)

and currently a titled dignitary of Pahang chieftains

and President of Mubarak (the association of one-time

legislators) The honorific ‘Tan Sri’ is equivalent to 

‘Sir’ in the British government

Written for Mary's hosting at Poets United,  Poetry Pantry #157