DECEMBER FRIENDS

Let me make you a poem
So if we may part, I’ll remember
You, like I have known you
Since that long lost December

As I am so good at forgetting,
I’ll remember you as a few lines
Some ink upon an old page,
A collective of some rhymes

Some things about your anger
A few occasions of laughter
Youthful plans that failed too soon
Some wonderful ever-afters

I will pause you wherever I like
And several times begin you again
Addressing matters that affect us
I’ll remind myself why we’re friends

-Karan Ghosh