Northern

The call never came.

He stayed silent and northern.

Maybe it was trouble with his phone, or he ran out of pocket change?

Blame the north as we always did,

The strange cold land from where he came.

Funny, the pictures I had made today came out just the same.

No fresh memories to move on to -

A sea of children's birthday cakes and painted tigers,

Things we'll likely never do or see.