FOR ABSENT FRIENDS

Like a prism, I can see many ways
it could be, many ways it could
work out, perfectly.
They are, more or less, happy
little dreams.

But I have decided
there is no need to reach for them, no need
to strive to make them
come true. I’ll just let them come
unexpectedly. And, if they do come,
I have decided
that I will be pleasantly surprised.

(20 April 2007)