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Friendship

Author: Sean Kwok

Desk and chair, pen and paper;

plenty time to laugh off later.

Are they all we were made to cater?

Look, there I was!

Serendipitously finding as ubiquitous as water

excuses to be happy.

Focus unmade, but a stranger's day,

remembering details and sharing away...

whisp'ring dreams of futures apace.

A bogle's river,

quaintly wandering with a willow's grace,

directing me whither?

Every droplet carries a face,

shards and echoes from a foregone place...

If only I'd met you sooner!

Echoes of patter in cyberspace lay,

no match for accents, spontaneous wordplay,

dazzling as ever.

Roots rot again in the damp,

I turn to leave, but you offer me a lamp;

a spark to share as we diverge at the ramp.

Excused of our rue,

fire frees a chance to revamp;

to build anew.