GOLDEN FRIENDS

Don't you want to be
Golden Friends,
the kind of friends
who see each other
even years later
if one of them has moved.

Who when they were 10
would have jumped in the rain
playing as frogs
if they had known each other.

And ten years from now
when you're sick in the hospital
I'll rush to wherever you are
and say
"I'm sorry I haven't visited in
so long. This is my wife,
and this is my son."
And I'll sit there to keep you company
while you recover.

Copyright ©2015 Ashi Shadow - 6/12/15 mostly written (in my head) while on the way to Louisville to visit Selma.
I had considered "pretending to be frogs" but I thought playing as frogs made it stronger since it was a true metaphor.