Letter To Someone You've Drifted Away From

Dear friend,

I cant believe its been like fifteen years since the last time I spoke to you and….. wow…. seventeen years since I saw you last? Damn. That’s hard to imagine, the way we used to run together back in the day. You were my dawg, wit ya sneaky, lying ass LOL, but it was your business to lie about, so I was never mad at ya LOL . We understood each other. If someone had told either of us back in 92 that we’d be estranged in 2011, we wouldn’t have believed them – no one would have – but here we are, and I have no clue where or who or how you are.

The last time I remember seeing you was when you came to my college for that weekend in ’94. We went to the Alpha pageant and the after party, and just hung out the rest of the time. It was fun. I remember planning to come hang out on your campus soon after that, but things didn’t work out, for some reason I don’t remember, and we never got back around to it. I didn’t see you again after that, but we did speak a few times. I remember the following year when you called to tell me Nukimba got killed, and how I slid down the wall and just sat in that spot on the floor, crying and talking to you for hours. The last conversation I remember us having was when I was at home, senior year. You were on a bus to Connecticut, on your way to see….. mm. Maybe that’s what it was about. Is that why you fell off the face of the earth? Too bad – you were in the wrong, but it really wasn’t anything that would have put a wedge in our friendship, if you didn’t feel guilty about it. I really wish we could have sat and talked about it, rather than you assuming it was over, but I guess that’s how it goes sometimes. I just want you to know, I never stopped considering myself your friend.

I don’t know what you are doing with your life right now, but your godsister told me a while back that you moved to Atlanta, and no one ever really hears from you. I hope you are doing fabulously, and living the life you want, and I hope one day our paths will cross again and we can set aside any misunderstanding there might have been that forced this lapse in our relationship. I think about you from time to time and wonder if you are married, or if you have kids, and I miss you. I do hope you are well, and it’s a small world. Even if it takes a while, Im sure our paths will cross again…. Until then, you take care.

Forever Dig