Requiem for a friend

Best friend:

Snow angel fragments swirling through the air come
      crashing down –
You catch me,
      put the pieces of the shattered me together,
      set me gently down and
      hold me so the tears don’t freeze.
In the icy glow of dead streetlights,
      you cast your shadow on me –
      we are safe, or once we were…
Do you remember?
      As sunshine hides among willow branches
      and fireflies run beneath the twilight,
            I will be there.
Can you set me aside when you slip in her ring?
      When I am lost and you have her to guard,
      will I spin slowly like the crystal angels
      and melt in April?
She is your best friend now,
      so I will quietly slide under the snowbank waves
      and sleep with red-gold autumn rains.

Goodbye, friend.