I've been meaning to write this for quite a while. Over the past few weeks, I'd started writing about what was on my mind, but I could never quite do him justice. University is a test for the friendships you've built back home, and one of the regrets in my life in recent times has been the way I seem to have lost my best friend.
The last time I saw him, we sat together and talked about going back to University for our second year. It turns out he was less enthusiastic than most, and had been considering quitting. I told him that all I ever cared about, was making sure he found something in life that made him happy. If I saw him today, I'd offer him the same advice.
Last year, there was a time I was writing poems everyday for fun. However it reached stage where they were being written for the sake of being written, with little or no meaning. When it reached that point I vowed to stop, and only write when there was something I wanted to stay. Today I have something I want to say and this poem has been harder to write than any I can remember.
I really do miss him.
I hope to see you soon for another cup of tea in Starbucks mate, and I hope I see you happy.
The last time I saw him, we sat together and talked about going back to University for our second year. It turns out he was less enthusiastic than most, and had been considering quitting. I told him that all I ever cared about, was making sure he found something in life that made him happy. If I saw him today, I'd offer him the same advice.
Last year, there was a time I was writing poems everyday for fun. However it reached stage where they were being written for the sake of being written, with little or no meaning. When it reached that point I vowed to stop, and only write when there was something I wanted to stay. Today I have something I want to say and this poem has been harder to write than any I can remember.
I really do miss him.
You’d been away from my mind for far too long.
Maybe I was hiding from all that was wrong.
I like to reflect on the best you could be.
The side that only a select few would see.
Maybe I was hiding from all that was wrong.
I like to reflect on the best you could be.
The side that only a select few would see.
Hands of time are moving faster these days.
We left each other happy in the sweet summer haze.
Only to emerge when the leaves had turned brown.
Smiles we once shared are now lonely frowns.
We left each other happy in the sweet summer haze.
Only to emerge when the leaves had turned brown.
Smiles we once shared are now lonely frowns.
Paving over cracks growing wider all the time.
Ignoring the problems was my biggest crime.
But days became weeks became half a year.
In the back of my mind there was always a fear.
Ignoring the problems was my biggest crime.
But days became weeks became half a year.
In the back of my mind there was always a fear.
Doubts crept in my head when life tore us apart.
Visions of your silence nearly broke up my heart.
I like to think we bought the best from each other.
Thicker than friends you were more like my brother.
Visions of your silence nearly broke up my heart.
I like to think we bought the best from each other.
Thicker than friends you were more like my brother.
Sorry for the months I haven’t been here to talk.
I will be proud whichever path you now walk.
Praying you respond to the texts that I send.
More than anything now, I just miss my friend.
I will be proud whichever path you now walk.
Praying you respond to the texts that I send.
More than anything now, I just miss my friend.
I hope to see you soon for another cup of tea in Starbucks mate, and I hope I see you happy.
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