Use to Be Friends
for Vanessa Linden

that was it for her and me

she became a stranger then
a stranger again

imagining the men's room
she had just cleaned
was too clean for me

the door is locked, she said
and I don't have the key,
she lied

it has been cleaned for tomorrow

it was today then
it is today now
as it always will be

our friendship slipped from us

now a part of yesteryear
of yesterday


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2010
6:50 p.m. 11.02.10