half a world away

My friend says You're back.

Over unlimited nationwide call
We talked politics for hours.
He impassioned, myself spectator
Just returned. Two days later
I received his wedding invitation.

My friend asks Will you make it?

I do not tell I do not want to go.
Maybe the mind will change itself
And give my childhood friend
Our being at the same place again.
When I fly to see him

And the person we both knew
From high school I did not expect
He will marry twice,
Something inevitably will change.
I will feel ever more

The gray hair and the distance
Of what was, has been, will be.