Your Last Call
/Though it was anticipated for over a decade
The phone call came unexpectedly from far away
It however delivered a sad message
You were battling a recurrent cancer
And now in the terminal stage
Stupefied by your grave condition
The excitement of hearing from you
After such a long intermission
Was nearly abolished
An old Chinese proverb says
it takes hundred-year of cultivation
to reap an opportunity of boarding
The same ferry with someone
Then our sisterlike friendship must
Take thousand-year of tillage
After your passing
Our friendship, culminated in
The reunion over phone
Forever turned into memory
The poignancy from the long void
Of our relationship still lingers
Those missing years must be hard for you
It also left me with a question unanswered
Yet it is unimportant now
Though you did not voice it
Clearly, your last call was
Not just to say final good-bye
But also to tell me you had
Kept me in your thoughts all along
By Shih-Fang Wang
From: United States