When a Friendship Dies
When a friendship dies
no mourners come
with last respects to pay
There’s nothing
but the silence
where there once was much to say
Old comforts
feeling awkward
if in happenstance we meet
We are strangers
once again
in chance encounters on the street
The laughter
and camaraderie
of former times are through
You’ve found a better
crowd to join
and I shall find one too
No, there will be
no fanfare
no memorial for the dead
No tributes
in the papers
no obituaries read
For it will simply
fade away
right there before your eyes
Leaving you
to write a poem
when a friendship dies
Copyright © Michael Wise | Year Posted 2019
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