FRIENDS FOREVER

YEARS FROM HERE AND NOW

ON A CALM AND TRANQUIL SEA...

IN A PASTEL PAINTED WORLD

I WILL PULL YOU CLOSE TO ME...

TWO CHILDREN BROUGHT TOGETHER

BY THE HARDSHIPS WE'VE BEEN THROUGH...

THE HEARTBREAKS WE'VE ENDURED

AND THE LOVE WE'VE PROVED WAS TRUE.

BUT HERE AND NOW - I THINK ABOUT...

THE DAYS WHEN WE FIRST MET,

HOW YOU FILLED MY LIFE WITH WONDER...

AND BECAME MY WORST REGRET,

FOR YOU WERE THE FIRST I LOVED ENOUGH

TO ENTRUST MY SECRET SHAME,

YOU...THE ONE WHO LOVED ME ENOUGH

TO RESPECT ME FOR WHAT I BECAME.

THOSE WORDS THAT I SPOKE IN ANGUISH...

THOSE WORDS THAT HURT YOU AND ME,

THAT CONFESSION THAT CHANGED US FOREVER...

IT TRANSFORMED US AND SET US BOTH FREE,

FOR AT LAST I COULD BE WHAT I'D ALWAYS DREAMED...

THE MAN WITH NO SECRETS TO HIDE...

THE FRIEND OF A FRIEND WHOSE GENEROUS HEART...

COULD LOVE ME FOR WHAT WAS INSIDE.

AND THE YEARS THAT HAVE PASSED...

SINCE THAT DAY THAT WE CRIED,

SINCE OUR WORLD FELL APART...

AND THEN LEFT US TO DIE...

HAVE BEEN MAGIC AND TORMENT...

AND TRAGICALLY BLISSED,

AND THEN ALL OF THOSE THINGS

THAT WE FELT WHEN WE KISSED.

BUT I REGRET THAT I HURT YOU...

AND THAT WON'T GO AWAY,

THAT SADNESS IS PART

OF WHAT WE ARE TODAY...

A MAN AND A WOMAN...

A BOY AND A GIRL...

LINKED TO EACH OTHER...

THOUGH IN TWO SEPARATE WORLDS...

BUT MAYBE THAT ISN'T WHAT FRIENDS ARE MEANT FOR...

THOUGH WE'VE BEEN TOGETHER...

THROUGH GOOD AND BAD WEATHER...

IN FRIENDSHIP FOREVER...

FRIENDSHIP...AND MORE.

© MAY 22, 1999 By Menes

-FOR JENNIFER-