James J. Metcalfe - A Representative Metcalfe Poem

A Representative Metcalfe Poem

One of Metcalfe's poems is about "The Friends I Had":

I used to have some special friends

I do not have today

And many times I wonder why

We had to drift away.

...

I wrote them letters now and then

And some of them replied,

Yet gradually and casually

The correspondence died.

...

But every time I think of them

And hold them in my heart,

I wonder why they do not write

And why we had to part.