Ode To a Lost Friendship

© 2011 - 2024 Deborah Strod

Ode to a lost friendship

 

Losing your friendship

Makes me doubt I am who I think I am

 

I have missed many things

I have missed your children knowing me as they grew up

And seeing them grow

 

I have missed your companionship

And wise counsel

 

I have mourned your losses from afar

(those I knew about)

 

Though I have been told I am not the only one

And though I have been told it was not my fault

The worry lingers

That I hurt you

Unknowingly

 

And not knowing

The cause

Of

Separation

Has

Left

Me

Bereft.

 

I plug on

I left you alone

Eventually.

 

Even after

You said you’d call

And didn’t

Even after I probably tried too hard

I did eventually

Just

Stop

Trying.

 

But I did not stop missing

Or mourning our loss

Of a friendship which was supportive to both

A pair with a unique understanding

Of each other

And the world

And the way we’d try

To make it better

And still be ourselves

And be able to be confused

And see distinctions

 

And yet this is not a love poem

It is a loving friendship poem

And is a loss poem.

Ode to a lost friendship.pdf

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