For Friends Who May Never Return Poem by abu tarek md tahsin

I met her on the wooden bridge
A few miles from where I lived
As the sun was drowning that day
Ducks waddled in the lake below
In their own leisure ways

I met her on the wooden bridge
A few miles from where I lived
And she stood there for a while
Thinking of dreams and the darkening sky

I walked softly by
And came back
To offer her
A beer for a smile

As she sipped it for a while
She looked at me and smiled
But she told me very little
And I asked her none

For some strangers come to your life
And some doors are forever kept open
For friends who may never return