Nothing?

Nothing has changed,
     But everything has...
You never phone or come by,
     But you were always there, only a jump away.

Where are we now?
     You say we are here.
But I don't see --
     Maybe I'm the ignorant one?

Isolation is a lethal state,
     (as if you saw it at all);
Together we were one,
     But all that has faded.

I was the believer, your disciple,
     You, the chosen one, my leader.
And there was life, excitement
     Until yesterday when the fog fell.

Somehow, I don't know how to pretend,
     We are still the same,
When nothing has changed,
     But everything has.

(c)Anne Gray                                   

published in Skipping Stones 2007

Mindworm Press, Chesapeake, VA