"Best Friends"(free verse I think?) first shot at this since high school so it's sloppy, but it needed to get it off my chest.

We are best friends.
Inseparable.
When only one of us is out, they ask about the missing half.
We spend an unhealthy amount of time together.
Just.
New friends.
Passing time.

We get new jobs, but we stay close.
Our time together goes from daily.
To weekly.
To "brunch every Sunday"
To "Oh my God, has it been a month? We can't let that happen again!"
We will.
We will have that same.
Exact.
Conversation.
Five times this year.
But we're busy with
New friends
Passing time.

One of us will call every week or so.
Intending to get together.
We're busier now.
Demanding workloads.
New friends.
Passing time.

We'll bump into each other at the same local places we used to frequent.
We'll fight over buying the next round, and joke about how
It was so different Back then.
We introduce our new friends and lovers, looking for approval.
The introductions stop.
We hug when we see each other.
Then we wave.
Then we act like we don't see each other, and enjoy our meal with
New friends.
Passing time.

We see each other's cars around town and.
We wave.
One day, we get new ones.
The waving stops.
Businesses
New friends
Passing time.

One of us gets married.
We're there.
Sort of.
We shake hands of friends we used to know.
We text our date it's time to go.
We leave the gift we just picked up.
We sipped enough champagne to meet your
New friends
Passing time.

Congratulations!
We text you on the day your first is born.
We aren't there.
It would have been weird.
What's the baby's name again?
What color balloon do we send?
Families
New friends.
Passing time.

It's been years.
We see each other at the store.
One of us is just back to visit parents
They're getting older
Sometimes they ask about you.
How old is the baby?
Seven. We're headed to see their
New friends
Passing time.

Our kids are graduating.
We see each other at the ceremony.
We wave.
The kids ask us who we are.
Nobody.
They run to their
New friends.
Passing time.

I wonder How they've been?
Sick
Older
Surrounded by family and friends.
Except one.
The kids are looking through your old photos with you.
Who is that?
You read the obituaries.
You almost forgot they existed.
I guess they don't anymore.
You cry at the funeral.
The kids had to ask.
Who was that?

We were best friends
Inseparable.
When only one of us is out, they would ask about the missing half.
We spent an unhealthy amount of time together.
Just
New friends
Passing time.

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