i miss the days when seeing you
did not require a calendar or a plan
someone would simply ask “where are you?”
and that was enough to make a day

we had no itinerary then
just afternoons stretching into evening
someone buying food, someone complaining
someone laughing while the rest of us stayed

we were never in a hurry to leave
we could sit for hours and call it a day
repeat the same stories we already knew
and still laugh as if hearing them first

sometimes we talked about everything
sometimes we talked about nothing at all
sometimes silence stayed with us for hours
and nobody felt the need to fill it

because the point was never the story
or where we went or what we ended up doing
it was simply that we were together
and somehow that was always enough

i think i miss that most these days
the version of us that needed no planning
we did not have to make time for each other
because somehow, we always had time

now our days have learned to fill themselves
with work and deadlines and different places
messages answered later than we intended
and birthdays remembered through a screen

there is always a someday waiting
a weekend that never seems to happen
a “we should meet soon” we all keep meaning
until “soon” becomes another year

i wonder if you miss it too
those lazy days we thought would always stay
the afternoons we never thought to treasure
because we were too busy living them

if i had known how quickly ordinary fades
i would have stayed a little longer
every time someone said “come on, let’s go”
i would have asked for “five more minutes”

maybe that was all i ever wanted
five more minutes before we went home
one more story, one more laugh, one more hour
one more afternoon with nowhere to be

i miss my hometown friends in the softest way
for the days that still live somewhere in me
for the way something once felt so wonderfully right
and how i never knew i would miss it this much

we had nowhere to go
and somehow, we never needed anywhere
we only needed an afternoon together
and those were the days i never wanted to end