Facebook Friend

I ran into a Facebook  friend,
not literally, by the way.
I tried to ask, ‘how’ve you been?’
but he quickly turned away.

Could it be he didn’t recognize
my face so out of place?
Or that he didn’t remember me
without my profile    page?

But then again,
if I remember right,
he ‘liked’   my pic
from Halloween night.

We have 183 mutual friends.
I’ve even ‘checked in’ 
at places he’s been.
We both hit
on the same political post.
And last year, our group pic
was the one that was ‘liked’    the most.

Why then did he look away?
He always has so much to say.
I  LOLed   at all his jokes
and WOWed      at pictures of his folks.

I     cried with him
when he lost his pet fish
and   tagged him making a birthday wish.

With all that we share
and all the places we’ve been,
I expected at least a smile
from my Facebook friend.

02/14/2019
SD