why now

with three of her friends
together, mourning
in mild celebration
her passing,
at the beach house,
you each wrote a note
to her,
a note of love
and friendship.
saying all the sweet things
never said when
she was alive.
you rolled the notes
and pushed them
into a bottle of
emptied white wine,
her favorite,
corked it
then tossed it out
into the sea.
in less than three minutes
the bottle was
back on shore.
with one note inside,
reading
why now are you being
so nice to me.