Friendship Regained

I’d known you well,

so well,

            but we’d

drifted; floating, spinning,

unfettered.

            A chance encounter,

friendship regained.

      Stumbling from the old

college bar, together.

We laughed a bit too

heartily,

your phone to your ear,

telling her that you loved her.

I didn’t see

                        the taxi — you’d

stepped into the road —

a quiet thump — nothing to hear

though all around there was

screaming.

I know you again;

your girlfriend seems nice.

            My first catholic service.

No-longer drifting apart,

            I keep you in my thoughts

                        always.