Check Mate

I think of you often

Considering the brief duration

Of our acquaintance.

Many nights your name

Drifts like a wraith between my

Amen and my dreams.

Some days I smile, thinking

Of words we once spoke,

Witty, yet inconsequential,

Odd bits to linger over

While I pluck weeds from

The courtyard out front.

It’s not like we shared a

Romance, more a 

Light-hearted

Melding of minds.

Maybe you were the

Platonic soulmate foretold

By a palm reader 

At a small kiosk

In Baltimore’s

Inner harbor.

I don’t miss you as much

As I find places where

Your presence would

Be a blessing.

I hope you

Are well, 

friend.