I woke up this morning and saw your text.
At first, I didn’t quite know what to say.
If I’m honest, I was more than a little perplexed,
What reminded you of me after all these days?

Perhaps if I had learned from the past, I’d know,
That you only reached out for yourself,
It was not out of friendship, your sudden “Hello”,
But out of the simple fact you needed help.

I’m still caught up in the webs of time,
When our little conversations were for fun.
Then when did we get so good at goodbyes,
Because now look at the strangers we’ve become.

Should I have seen it coming, when
Our words shrank in their meanings?
And if I had seen it coming, then-
Would I have done the leaving?

Now you have your world and I have mine,
And we’re both quite happy on our own.
Surrounded by friends on all four sides,
Yet when we’re together, we’re alone.

We are too far apart to ever go back,
To when our faces mirrored smiles.
And if you want, we could leave it at that,
And announce the winners as our prides.

But if you ever spend moments regretting
The cold shoulders when we pass by,
If you wish to stop these attempts at forgetting,
I’d be down to try again, sometime.

The next time I see your name on my phone,
I hope it’ll be for the sake of you and I,
I’ll tell you now, if you had never known,
That it isn’t too hard, to just say “Hi”.