Hello Stranger

Blogger's note: I'm really not a poet! but well... I try... Comments are entertained... critical ones please! Though don't tear apart the rhyme scheme, I have to work on that!!


Hello stranger, how've you been?
How've you done those darn exams that get under our skin?
Hello stranger, it's been a while,
We've both been busy, both short of time.
Hello stranger, the phone just rang,
I wanted to hear your voice, but all I heard was noise.
Hello stranger, drop me a line sometime
I miss our conversations, our quality time.
Hello stranger, I wasn't in school today,
Did you notice? Or wonder why I was away?
Hello stranger, there's no pressure on you,
I understand your burden, what you're going through.
Hello stranger, your phone's out of order,
I tried to reach you, but the phone lines didnt bother
that I miss talking to you, it's now important to me
that even if I have nothing to say, I still say whatever I feel.
Hello stranger, I saw you at school,
amidst all that tension, I looked to you for cool.
Hello stranger, how's your mom,
Is she still worried that your girlfriend's the bomb?
Hello stranger, what about your father?
Any more late night convos? Or lectures, rather...
Hello stranger, won't you take five
and give me some time to talk tonight?
There's a lot to share, so much to tell you,
I need your advice on what I'm going through.
Hello stranger, its too late to call.
10:12 isn't a decent time at all.
Hello stranger, I console myself
one more week of tension, then we can spend time
just talking, or saying nothing at all,
studying or trying to, or catching a movie to take a break from it all.
Hello stranger, I flicked this from a show -
"As told by Ginger", but not the whole,
only the "Hello stranger", I liked that part:
Ginger wrote it to her father, whom she missed a lot.
This is to my friend and though I call him stranger, that's only because I know that there's so much more to him that I am yet to discover,
so much more of me that he is yet to uncover,
and this seeming gap is but a phase,
a three-week long distance so that we dont lose our way.
I hope my friend isn't too overwhelmed,
but I never want to have to call him "stranger" again.