See A Friend In Tears

See us brought on, 

see us taken only so far,

see a friend towards the brink of incompletion,

see a friend in tears.

See us cornered by solutions,

practising kindness bingo,

conveying peace,

extracting calm from

this moment with 

the shapeshifter:

a dear friend, 

studded, as an orange, with ticks

antlers locked 

with the algorithm 

alone by the clearing,

he's hunched, exhausted,

shifts again,

we look back to the moment of

the presumed loss in motion

of our friend in tears.