Day four- this is as far as I got last year!  Hopefully going to get further this year...

Friendship Band

Friendship's an elastic band
you stretch and release.
As you increase the distance,
I navigate the tightrope of potential
and snap painfully back to the start.
It's the uncertainty of emails
sent to a cyberspace void,
the hung-up non-calls because
you're "too busy to talk":
constant emotional vertigo.

Stretched to breaking point,
I sometimes want to cut
the quivering band, run
until pain burns nausea and
distance merges memories.

The irony is
you wouldn't even notice.