Samantha takes you down,
To a place by the water,
Serving toast with avocado,
And omelets filled with peppers,

And her hair is so much darker,
Than you ever could remember
And her hands are now tattooed
with rings across each finger,

And she stares just for a second,
Cos that’s all that she needs,
To see if
its been worth it -
All this messaging for the past two and a half weeks

And you want to hold her hand,
But that’s probably a bit weird
And that's what she once called you
The time you wrote that card

And left it on her desk
Just before English,
And you saw it in her bag
So know that she kept it

So you’re out here treading water
In Bruce Lee style Pyjamas,
Just like when you was twelve
Hoping someone might notice

You’ve been watching her for months
Scrolling through the timeline,
Through the holidays in Dubai
And the wedding in The Maldives

But he’s been missing from the photos
You work out - about six years,
So she’s focused on the salon,
And her daughter's martial arts

Now you’re walking by the lake,
And you want to ask if she saw you,
That night behind the bowling green
As she wrapped herself around him,

When her eyes clenched in the streetlight
And you froze just like a statue,
And you really wanted to save her,
But she didn’t need saving,

And she stares across the lake
As she talks of her new Audi
How it cost her fifteen grand
But she wants to change the colour

And her ex-boyfriend’s still in prison,
For that thing he did in Thailand
And she still writes him letters,
Though she’s not that really bothered,

She spent a summer in Ibiza,
Had a thing with Brandon Block,
And he still messages on her birthday,
She even gets a mention in his book,

Then she asks you the question,
The one you always feared
Where you have to make out you’ve been interesting
For the past twenty-five years

And somewhere in the distance,
In the middle of the lake
A twelve-year-old treads water
And gives his head a shake

The cold is starting to set in
Feeling a bit of a clown,
And his Bruce Lee style pyjamas
Are pulling him further down

So you tell her that your parking,
runs out in half an hour,
And for the first time,
you start to think about
What life will be like without her,

As your engine starts
you make the call and say the words aloud
Ok google....

'….How do I delete an Instagram account?'