a poem to my best friend
I can picture you
striding down that sidewalk
smiling broadly at everyone you pass
then at the crossing
pulling your plaid jacket up past your cheeks
crouching low to escape the wind
the wind you said
"would have blown you right away!"
for I'm thin as a sheet, or so you say
the lakes you look out to
reflect places I have yet to see
what I haven't smell, touch, embrace
a little pier, a little porch
a frozen lake that you skated across
last winter with the help of a little chair
I'm writing this coz I missed you then
and I miss you now
and I promise I'll never miss you again