Dear friend, or would you call it haste <br />If I address you thus as yet? <br />For while I know we have not met, <br />I feel as though I know your face- <br />Though not from memory of a place <br />For that would I surely not forget. <br />Still, 'stranger' seems an epithet <br />For you ill-fitting and misplaced <br /> <br />I watched you with interest when you came <br />Deciding then I did intend <br />My hand in friendship to extend <br />And ask, if you should do the same <br />If I, for mine, might learn a name <br />By which to call you, if not 'friend'<br /><br />David Tremain<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-an-unknown-friend-3/
