Love Poem: Not Friends
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Written by: Ann Foster

Not Friends

Not Friends 

It has been longer than…
a year, 
and you
never called. 
Not that I thought, 
you would. 
I know you better,
than you know yourself. 

You yelled at me, 
and called me names…
back then.

Not now. 
Not anymore. 
I guess, 
I was giving you, 
a moment. 
Our long years
together… 
make that a kindness. 
That does not mean, 
I want to be hurt again. 

You have no depth of field. 
You are a weapon in motion, 
that wields its self upon others,
asked or not. 
I prefer to be free, 
and live beyond the reach
of hard ammo thrown
carelessly, 
senselessly, 
at 
your 
will.