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Why Did You Change

Why did you change? What did I do? We were like brothers, and now Your face is a wall without windows, while you Abrogate what small claims you allow. I don't understand what undid the sweet bond That for years yielded nothing but joy. I am who I was, and yet you respond As though it were my aim to annoy. Perhaps there's no why when some untoward wind Whips away what we hold to our hearts. Though bitter it be to leave loved ones behind, It remains the most precious of arts.