Tomatoes at the Gate

The neighbors laugh over shared tomatoes at the gate

Sun on the fence line and we forget the way

Hands full of summer, red and ripe in the light

Talking like the evening lights stay all night

Tomatoes at the gate and the world feels kind

A simple little moment but it eases my mind

Neighbors laugh, drifting through the window scare

With shared tomatoes at the gate, nothing hurts there

We trade a few stories, old rain, new dreams

The garden between us grows bigger than it seems

One basket of harvest, one smile, one day

And the hard edges soften when you pass that way

Tomatoes at the gate and the world feels kind

A simple little moment, but it eases my mind

Neighbors laugh, drifting through the window scare

With shared tomatoes at the gate, nothing hurts there

Maybe this is how

A small peace starts

In the ordinary corners of borrowed hearts

A laugh, a gate, a handful of red

And a little more mercy in the words we said

Tomatoes at the gate

And the world feels kind

A simple little moment, but it eases my mind

Neighbors laugh, drifting through the window scare

With shared tomatoes at the gate, nothing hurts there