It's me again---surprise, surprise!
Is't recognition in your eyes?
You thought you lost me?---gone for good?
But I've showed up---you knew I would.
You wrote and wrote, but no replies...
'Twas just too rude, I realize;
So you gave up? I hope's not true!?
Without your lines what will I do??
A month its been since you said "Hi";
I miss your poems---your friendly lines.
It's all my fault, I know, I know;
I should've written long ago.
But wait----but wait!---a compromise?
For here I am with my own lines.
You will write back; I know 'tis so---
Or have I fallen far too low?
I did not write---I'll tell you why:
Although I tried, I could not rhyme;
So I was silent, indisposed...
You waited long-----that's how it goes.
That's how our friendship's been designed----
You'll often write with fewer lines,
And later I'll reply with more,
So amply making up with yours.
And I admit I asked for rhymes,
Which you have giv'n 'most all th'times;
In this my downfall's been secured----
For lack of this I've sent no word.
Yet pray, my friend, all rhymes aside,
Will you forgive me one more time?
Here write I now and say, "Hello"
And, "Are you fine? How does all go?"
You ne'er believed I'd never write,
And six months late t'ain't much surprise;
So off again with paper in tow,
We'll rhyme'N'write, that's how we go.
Surprise, surprise! Late come my "Hi's",
There's recognition in your eyes---
I'm back again with paper 'N'pen,
To write and rhyme with you again!
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