The May 16th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to address a poem to someone “in your life that you liked, but never really got a chance to know.”

I’d love to send this to you
ask you how you are
Ah, but it was so long ago

You remembered me
you called my name
and we talked for a while

I knew I knew you from somewhere
but I was too embarrassed
to ask for your name

But we were just two kids talking
inside a 7-Eleven
not thinking about the future

Though it makes a great story
to this day I regret
that I left without asking

I’d love to run into you again
perhaps this time
we can introduce ourselves

(16 May 2014)