Bygone friendship
Was joyfully aflame
In the aft
Of voyaging dreams

As we parted ways
With frightening ease
Adrift
For our lonely
Fragments of dawn

Kinship waned
With its parting song
Engulfed, in its hardly
Somber farewell

We remained
Ever-grateful
For the cheer once held

In hope to behold
Our warmth
In passersby