Drawing by Mike Lanagan

BACK THEN

I was looking

For something

He had drawn

A portrait

Of me

I had to look

Through countless

Photos words

Jokes amazements

Of what was

Important

In his world

My answers

My world

His answers

And comments

Always poignant

Funny

A bit oblique

Back then

We met

Two starkly

Different individuals

In a dense

Large crowd

Drawn together

By some commonality

A humanity shared

By only two

We lived on vivid

In memory

As though then

Was now

Back in our

Different worlds

And the one

We had made

And shared

We still do

Although

One is gone