It suited you to walk the beach in autumn;
\nour friendship should not finish – you’d decided –
\nin the bright ebullience of a summer’s day.
\nYou knew you’d find a better moment
\nin the clustering shadows of an October afternoon
\nso you waited patiently and drew us both
\nto walk, instead, the cool blue edges of an autumn shore
\nwhere the rippling light of a full moon
\nbroke in pale lines along the unravelling waves.
\nI watched the sea melt and darken to the sky,
\nnot understanding that as we left the beach that night
\nour friendship would remain, derelict, behind. <\/p>\n
It is a sad thing, this drawing down of friendship;
\nand sadder still, to choose a time to end.
\nBut autumn is a time for emptying and for letting go
\nAnd autumn was when I lost my friend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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