Reunited

For two years, I was in love with a girl in Germany named Andrea. We were inseperable. May 17, 2018 she suddenly vanished. I flew to Germany, lost my phone when I arrived, and could not find her. Andrea was involved in an automobile accident, critically injured, spent 9 long months alone in a coma, and I had no idea. She knew of me but couldn't remember my name because of her brain injury. Then on June 8th, 2021, I saw an image that made me think, could this be my Andrea? I wrote her beautiful poetry for two years and as soon as I posted this poem online, she saw it and I finally found my Andrea.

It's been a long time, since we said hello,
I've missed our long talks, and places we'd go.
I've thought of you often, and why you would leave,
When I was your rock, when you needed me.

Everything ended, so suddenly fast,
When I thought what we shared, was going to last.
Germany was, such a beautiful place,
The Cathedral, the Rhine, and life's slower pace.

I hold no grudge, I just want to talk,
To be your friend, and maybe your rock.
Please say hello, and let's start over,
I miss you Andrea, you were my inspiration.

Within minutes, Andrea responded with the following message:

Hello Allen, I thought I had lost you. Now I have tears in my eyes. I couldn't log into Tumblr, I couldn't remember the password, and I couldn't find you with a new account.

So many things have happened, I have forgotten so much, missed so many things, but I always knew that my rock was somewhere and it hurt not to be able to find you.

I had seen the first messages but didn't recognize that it was you. All changed with the poem, I know only one person in the world who would write like that.