Ferret And Featherbird

(Hammill)

Time has come between us:
in the passing months I've felt you slip away
as your words and mine came like nursery rhymes
till there was nothing left to say.

Distance came between us long ago,
as our memories faded away...
over the miles I ceased to smile
because nothing felt the same.

That's how it seemed a week ago,
far off in time and space.