My dear friend
is leaving me fast.
Grain of sand
by grain of sand.
It used to be
we could play verbal
tennis hitting the ball
back and forth.
Now I hit the ball
to her
and the ball drops.
There is no play back.
So I hit it again
and ball just drops unattended.
So I
end the game earlier
and we walk together.
My arm is over her shoulders
but I miss playing
verbal tennis
with her.
But we still do
a skeleton of tennis
But …
no ball is properly hit
Back to me at all.