Expect to see me as I
pass by on the block.
Know I am ok when I
am alone at a table.
Spend no time waiting for me
in a chair facing away from the
desk,
I am never coming back.
Change not a thing and be
nobody new.

It’s just too little too late
very soon and frantically
grasping.
It took such little time
to be distant and receive
a smile,
hello,
how are you?,
how have you been?
Friendliness had to wait
and come once I was
gone.

But truthfully,
I’m still here,
and I see you there.
I walk this same block
for the same reason
you do.
It is the fastest way
home for both of us,
though my home is
occupied by just
me.
Come over anytime
when you are not busy
together.