Lost Loves

If we pass on the street

I will tip my hat to you

Pass swift, quiet greetings

Then be on my way

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Almost as strangers

With so little in common

So little interaction

Lost in worlds of our own

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As but another face in the crowd

A neighbour from childhood

The same year in high school

Long lost on life’s journey

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Yet behind it all

A depth of emotion

I don’t want to peer into

And can never escape

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We were best friends once

And lost lovers too

Who in our early twenties

Soothed one another’s pain

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We shared a warm bed

Arms around each other nightly

Making love until daybreak

You were my whole world

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But then, we drifted apart

As best friends often do

When love slips away

And our hearts no longer love

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But now, so many years later

As almost strangers in a crowd

I often think of what might have been

And I wonder if you do too

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But for now,

I’ll tip my hat to you

And quietly mumble greetings

And keep my thoughts to myself

And be on my way