For You
Some friends lost, some friends gained;
With each passing year, they said
‘You have changed!’
Even if I have, is it really for the worse?
Maybe so, but am I the only one to be cursed?
So many promises made, so few kept;
Did our friendship have....such a low depth?
Even if it had, why didn’t we dig deeper?
Perhaps then....you didn’t have to be the weeper!
Together so much time we would spend
That people would say, ‘this journey has no end’
So why did our car suddenly break down?
Even before it had traveled out of town?
No mechanic in the world has the answer.
So I tried to ponder,
Upon why our friendship succumbed to cancer!
When we were young, we had the same imagination
But as we grew up, there came the realization....
That we live in a real world
Far different from the one we had unfurled.
To tell the truth, I started suffocating,
I wanted to make more space for living.
I made new friends with whom I spent each day.
By the time I looked back, you were too far away.
I thought calling you was useless;
You wouldn’t hear my voice
But little did I know you yearned for it;
Even amidst all that noise.
I did go back as there’s no tomorrow;
But as my lips moved, your heart filled with sorrow.
I said goodbye and walked away
Leaving you alone to cry the whole day.
Forgive me if you can, don’t if you can’t.
Happiness for you is all I want.
The friends that you have are special indeed
I only hope that they don’t repeat what I did.
P.S:
Pink, I wrote it at the end of class VII and saved it all these years. And i mean each word, even today.
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