Stars Fading

[plumtreeblossom]

Lives in orbits
passing through
each other's moving existence.
Together... then gone.

Strong presences,
human imprints
on my life
leaving my life.
Separate orbits
not destined to cross again.

We have said
"We’ll be friends forever."
But we’re not.

Distance inserts itself
regardless of proximity.

The people already gone away
are gone. I can’t find them,
Or they don’t want to be found again.

But the ones still here
are even further away,
the miles being emotional ones.
Light years spanning between us,
ever wider.
We have said "I love you"
but did the words glide off
in a speeding orbit of their own?

Why have we?