Musings Poem by Elmer Sayre

You called me,
from a corner store in your home-town,
in Sulawi.

I responded,
swiftly covering the distance from where you are,
eager and anticipating.

We talked,
tracing back emotions we kept in our hearts,
fervently digging.

We found instead not sweet memories, but regrets.
They said, "absence makes the heart grow fonder, "
not in our case, because when you went away long time ago,
you left me empty handed and broken.

No treasured memories I can cling to and show to you,
In our meeting, in the same corner store
we met before, in your home-town in Sulawi.