Sometimes when I reflect

Sometimes when I reflect
upon all the people I've lost 
through drifting apart as life does, 

I say hmm, 
and consider all I've gained 
by not having their needy bullshit 
to endlessly service and maintain, 
and I am sad, 
because. 

Some of those people 
were worth it. 

There's really no way to barge 
back in now and tell them that