Be cleansed…
Be healed…
Rise up and walk…
The words of 
my Lord 
dangle uselessly 
over the pile of ashes 
once my friend…

Why not here?
Why not now? 

I would have 
pounded through the roof 
of a stranger’s house 
for him…

Why not here?
Why not now? 

I know what my friend would say:
There is only one answer…
…Love.