playfully, you looked at me

when you asked me my name

knew you already, but

a stranger, just the same.

so much between now and then, 

and also so little

our feelings so tender, and now

so brittle

the silence so loud, my heart in my ears

and the days and weeks that stretched into years

the end, no surprise, save the end of the game

you, so unchanged, while i

was never the same.