Mike
all good wishes
words
written on water

Obituary
with candid regrets
rippled
I didn’t know

Blue
leaden white lettering
shelfed
hard to find

Guilt
at words unread
overlooked
streams uncharted

Shipped
a reluctant letter
feared
affirmative response

Tepid
questions by rote
trickling
off the floor

Listened
swimming different strokes
wanting
Seamus Heaney

Broken
on youthful pomposity
shipwrecked
by jaundiced stares

Words
written on water
evoke
these former façades

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