Repost - To a friend of many names

One Single Impression has a prompt 'Friend'.  

I wrote this many years ago, while working in Stockton-on-Tees, UK.

It was my first attempt at an (almost) free-form poem..

To a friend of many names.

You touched me once,

In passing;

You probably don't remember,

But I recall it well.

You touched me once,

In passing,

And as you continued on your way

Left a special imprint,

A mark upon the clay that you

And others like you

Have moulded into me.

I reacted to your presence,

To your coming and your going,

With suble little changes

That only I can see.

You shaped my thoughts and standards

Then continued moving on;

Probably never knowing

That I could see where you had been

Long after you had gone.

Yes, you touched me once.

In passing.

You probably don't remember

But I recall it well.

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© 2012   J Cosmo Newbery

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