Let It Go

midweek motif poets united
poetry jam

you called

we go back years
a friendship
framed by a million
telephone conversations
une amie d'enfance

we battled through
trials and tribulations
of teenage angst
of student life
of broken hearts
of work life
of children
of marriage
of divorce

you said
you were calling
after all these years
because
you found my number
at the bottom of a drawer

je te dis
je prefere la politesse
la gentillesse des etrangeres

(i'm telling you i prefer good manners
the kindness of strangers)