Long-Lost Friend

I did not have it in me to wish you good fortune,

I did not have the guts to say I prayed for your death.

It is funny how you can curse someone you love

And how you can watch them die in the very same breath.

I have grown too tired to speculate or try,

I have grown way too old for you to try me again.

Please promise me that when you finally pass

My scathing face will not remind you of a long-lost friend.

-Jackie