silence between friends

Just as I was succumbing

    to the goals and dreams

of every girl I was before

you texted:

"There is a family of turkeys 

I see every morning 

and they are so precious and perfect 

but too fast for me to get a pic. 

Off topic but it felt important to tell you"

but it was on topic, I just never told you about

how I saw a psychic years ago

        she pulled the turkey card

and she warned me about this time in my life

            that I needed to be resilient and strong.

And somewhere in the recesses of your mind

you knew to tell me about the family of turkeys

And wrapped and sent me a gift-

        sister-strength and aunty-resilience

Even though I never told you about the psychic

Even though I never told you about the turkey card

Even though I never told you it was a hard day 

again,

You are a surprising light shining

from miles away on a dark day

and you couldn't know, 

            because I didn't ever tell you.