It's Been So Long

Isn't it strange to meet someone again after such a long time? Especially someone you were once very close to?

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It’s been so long,

Yet I wasn’t sorry for it even then.

Has enough time passed that we can say

“Ah, those were good times”?

Too bad I never cared.

Hm, to be truly happy –

I don’t think that’s what it was with you.

So do I grieve for what I never believed in?

Not now, not here – seems so out of place.

Why have you shown up in my life?

You’re a black and white rerun

Playing on the screen I just happened to flip on.

Are we old friends?

“Ah, so good to see you! It’s been a while!”

Never crossed my lips.

“You haven’t changed” is something I can’t prove.

So why not return, Phantom,

To the shadows of my past?

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