A ghost and a shadow

If I think about it,

You have always been

Like a ghost to me.

On most days

A forgotten memory,

Until suddenly your absence

Sends a chill down my spine.

And like a soul, possessed,

I find myself sitting out in my balcony

Having an imaginary conversation 

About gangsters and their paradise.

And I have been

Like a shadow to you.

Following a notion of you around,

trying to keep up,

Riding the crest, and then down the valley

Until eventually I disappear,

Sinking back into the horizon.

And that is how we exist - 

A ghost and a shadow,

A long distance relationship, 

Thriving in imperfect harmony.

We don't belong in the same song,

Our heart beats don't even rhyme

And the smiles we shared, 

in our overlapped past - 

While some were fake,

Others, a function of incidental

happenstance.

Yet somehow after all these years

You found me, slowly blending

Into my backdrop.

And revealed again that child in me,

Who wrote verses and jumped a lot.

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To that one friend, who I don't really understand and I don't know if he understands me either. But when we meet, we smile at each other.