I'd say hello

You'd just smile and turn away

With your back straight and sadly visible

But your smile kept contained to a flash of teeth

No warmth in your eyes

And my voice would die within my throat

Never crawling past my lips

in a torrent of befuddled silence

Your demeanor would be crisp

As though my pain, the shunning

Was inconsequential to your indifference

And maybe it is, but I'll never know

If you just hide it well

I never thought it would come to this

This hopeless waving

Our faces find each other in the halls

But our tongues have nothing to say anymore

I used to wonder what I did wrong

What subtle clue I missed or ignored

That revealed your waning of interest

I search through the dusty halls

Of my memory

For a reason for your freezing glance

A transgression that galled you so

But my hands come up empty

I wanted to know what was wrong with me

But I've come to realize

That friendship is a delicate thing

Nothing is wrong with me

Or you

It's the us that has withered, dried

And curled upon itself

To wreak havoc upon what we thought we were

So it has come to this

One last goodbye, but no more chances

And we move on like ships frozen to a course

I'm so sorry