The Catalyst

Somehow time
and a little distance
has taken our friendship
and rendered it useless.

I tried,
I have a vice -like grip
but I still felt it slip.


When I reach through that barrier you put up,
it's like a blank stare
is waiting there
to proclaim the truth
'I do not care'
and so you burned me with your haste
and left me with a bitter taste.

But the one thing time, and a little distance,
and some reason that remains unknown,
can never take away from me
is all the precious memories.
You can't empty my mind
of the laughs and the lines,
the smiles and the times,
that I re-play in my mind.

It's all I have now
you've allowed yourself to not exist in my world,
and maybe I need to take the blame for that?
But you don't say a word
so how am I to know,
to correct,
to put right?

Somehow time
and a little distance
was all the catalyst needed
for you to render me pointless...