A Call from an Old Friend
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This is a true story about a friend here at Soup who quit coming here around three years ago. Despite my many emails and letters, she never responded to me. I heard from her out of the blue last month. I doubt I will hear from her again because I think she called me on a day when she happened to be lucid.
For Joseph May's Rhymes In Nine Poetry Contest / Hope I did this right!
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Her voice on the phone made me rejoice.
although her call was long delayed, my heart sang a song that day.
She called me with no prompting! It was her choice.
Some several years had come and gone, but this old friend
at last, like a ghost from her sad past, called to say
no poems she'd penned. Unwell she'd been. I’d thought we’d had our end!
My letters she had gotten; I’d not been forgotten after all.
She had no ruse, for her sad news was that dementia had found its way
inside her mind. Life’s been unkind – I learned from my friend’s call.
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2024
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