Two Friends Poem by RIC BASTASA

she is too tired to write
i perfectly understand this
i must tell
i know what tired means
or the exhaustion
to say the words
i know what dying is
i have to tell her about this

and then she realizes perhaps
that she is not at all alone

we have to see each yet
face to face
and then i know how a smile looks
like,
how misery is shared and how
it becomes one
fusion of bliss

two people dying
and not one is scared.