friend poetry

i bid them all farewell
so lost
and with the humming bird
i saw you hunched and shivering on the stones
afraid no more, i say
let me move slowly through the street
royal feast was done
gaily through the fields we danced
and as we walked the grass was faintly stirred
that strange companion came on shuffling feet
the ships are lying in the bay
i have seen the proudest stars