Facebook friends

We are friends on Facebook

We like each others posts sometimes

We share posts the other has shared

We've been friends for months, years

Whenever I'm in one of those moods

And delete whoever I'm not really friends with

I skip their profiles

I let them be on my friend list

And yet, when we stand within arm's length from each other

We don't recognize, we don't acknowledge, we don't smile

We don't say we like their outfit even though

We go back home and like a picture they posted that day

This is what we are now

Friends

But not really

Strangers on Facebook

Silence

Silence for a week

As a fever crept up on me
When I wasn't looking
As blood test after blood test
Showed a decreasing platelet count
As medical jargon was thrown my way
And no one was quite sure
If I was going to be okay

As I sweated and then shivered
Swallowed pills that didn't go down smoothly
And threatened to come right back up
As I slept and slept and slept

As I shut myself out of the world
A headache making me cry in pain
Every single inch of my body
Aching for god knows what reason

Silence for a week

I had that at least
For a week
Seven days or so
My mind was too busy
To let you crawl your way to the front
And so

Silence for a week

And as twisted as this sounds
Thank you for that