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I Just Came By

Author: 
Debjani Chatterjee

(with thanks to William Carlos Williams for 'This Is Just To Say')

 

I just came by

to look you up,

to say I’m around,

 

to feel needed,

to say you matter,

that together

 

we can do anything,

but you were not alone;

someone else had dropped by

 

to borrow a cup of sugar

or coffee, to say Hi,

when I came by.

 

From Fire No 16 (January 2002)