CHOCOLATE

Without an address book 

I can't call you. 

There are more kilometres than I trust

between your starting point and mine.

You emailed: "Unless I hear from you

I'll be there" for conversations sweetened

by cake, chocolate and surviving fifty years

knowing there are some distances 

new technologies just cannot bridge

some uncertainties conquerable only by

a teenage pact to always be friends.

Over hot chocolate with chili

stirring the chocolate glue

we agree to exchange mobile phone numbers.

The real test is keying them in.