The Prompt Was Friendship

 

With friends. Far away and long ago. 

Can't claim too many friends - 

I've moved around too much,

it's hard to say goodbye,

harder to stay in touch.

Social media platforms,

letters and video calls

can't bridge the whole distance,

they can't plug all the holes.

And therefore by and by

the connections taper off -

two worlds too disparate

and keeping up too tough.

I can count them on one hand.

I'm thankful for the few

who've remained through thick and thin

and that it includes you.

Some poetry group that I belong to on FB put out this prompt on friendship and I wrote this but then couldn't locate the original post where I was supposed to submit - story of my life! - so I thought I'll post it here instead. 

Nope, I've haven't been abducted or quit blogging, just quietly prepping for the A-Z which I thought I'll join in this year with some sort of theme and coherent posts after the haphazard, cobbled-together-at-the-last-minute type posts for years now. So yeah, I'll be there.

I hope March has treated you well. A very happy Eid in advance to my friends celebrating. I'll be back on the 1st. See you soon.