Yokohama

Filtering evening's sun as it slowly fades.

Across Tokyo Bay we gaze and talk again,

Remembering the bad times, forgetting all the pain.

This is Yokohama, my friend of many years.

We are still together, in spite of all the tears;

Now we are together, now we are one

In that distant land of the ever-rising sun.

Graham Lawes, Sholing, Southampton

Daily Echo poet-in-residence Polly Clark writes: "This poem about friendship is full of feeling."

You can e-mail Polly on polly.clark@soton-echo.co.uk