A Last Farewell To Crazyville

The graveyard was melting. in the shadows of nightfall. Darkness and death are my fear my kryptonite. Yet I walked into the iron gate creaking like old bones. I needed to find you I know you lived here now. I could feel our friendship still calling me? In all the darkness I saw a light a small flickering flame. It was on your headstone. I knew it was yours. Your mother had lit a candle for you today. I knelt down and kissed the granite with your name? Not in prayer it was too late for that. Only whispering “Hello my old friend” quietly so no other ghost can hear me? I tossed on a playlist from the old days. And sat down for a chat like always. Remember we were almost thirteen We got detention for refusing to Stop wearing black everything. and wearing black lipstick? We knew were special then more than girlfriends More than sisters we were us forever. We learned how to drink cheap wine. Get drunk together and get over hangover. You taught me to smoke until I was green and sick. Remember college we got out of that boring Home town with a single traffic light. We danced partied and learned sex? Experimented with drugs it was crazy I don’t know how we survived. You were filled with hidden sickness I was to the brim crazy. But we did. at twenty two we got better? You moved away and I went home. I heard you married a woman. Why did you never tell me you were gay? I would have married you in a heartbeat. I called you to get together for a reunion. Bring your wife I said? But you were already starting to leave this world. I met a friend in coffee shop the other day. She told me you were gone I asked gone where? She looked at the floor just GONE. So here I am sweetie Do you remember anything that day? Except the sudden chest pain The lack of oxygen. Did you remember me? That’s when my tears came Wetting the granite stone. You know I always have loved you. And it’s just not the same in crazyville without you. As if in answer to me The moon peeped from behind a cloud. And shone onto us in a beam. I kissed her farewell And walked away into the darkness.