My eldest friend.
You haven’t changed
A bit.
You still remind me
How to cry
For joy and
For pain.
You always spoke
When nobody
Would listen, and
Connected me
To everything out there
In the wide open
World of the
Past,
Present, and
Future.
Smile,
I know you want to.
Even if you can’t,
I will.

rjw, 6/26/87


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