. . Goodbye Friend . .

I cant help but remember. . .

Remember every laugh we shared.

Every moment we spent,

As the best of friends.

I push myself back into the present.

Where the tears are still here.

Tears for you.

I ponder,

Ponder on what happened.

What happened to the friendship

We used to share.

Sure, we had our downs,

But we had more ups.

The tears

Always seemed

To just bring us closer.

The laughs,

Tightened the

Rope.

I look back again,

On the fateful day

On a lonely swing

At the park.

That,

That is where

I met my

Best Friend.

We giggled,

And laughed,

And our parents dragged us away.

*So easy it is for young children to make friends.*

Not knowing whether I would ever see you again,

I waved my goodbye, as my car pulled away.

My first day of kindgergarten

It brought me great fear.

In a new

Big

World.

I looked around at all the other children,

But then,

I spotted my new, but old

Friend.

We laughed,

And played games,

As us two small girls grew.

Our friendship grew closer, and stronger,

And so did our small bodies.

We laughed, testing,

What our young

Mothers

Put

On.

The blush,

The lipstick,

Those tall,

High heeled

Shoes.

We giggled and joked

For countless hours.

Blowing bubbles

Into the breeze.

So as we got older,

We knew how to make another laugh

Silly, childish jokes,

Still brought

The smile,

Another wished.

*As I watched my friend cry,
Another hurtful word tossed
At her heart,
I put on a smile, remembering
Our old 3rd grade joke,
'What's 2 + 2?'
She pouted,
'4'
'Nope!' I giggled. 'Shedd Aquarium!'
Her face lit up.
'And what's that place in Chicago?' I beamed.
'Shedd Aquarium' She smiled.
'No! Four!'
We both giggled wildly, for though we were
older, more mature, naive,
Fifth graders,
We still held on to one thing
that was the same
eachother.*

The times grew older,

and we had two new best friends,

the crazy boys of our quartet,

Kolin and Michael.

The four of us would spend hours talking,

laughing, and eating pizza.

Those times I wish

back.

We would smile and laugh,

loving one another's

company.

Until came a cold day,

you drifted away.

The boys and I tried to hold on,

But you forced your way

Out.

They grew tired of waiting,

But I said to myself

'I will never let go.

Not of my first

true

friend.'

Our last year at our old small school.

We were older, much bigger,

our 8th grader selves.

We had a few laughs,

but they lessened

each day.

I held onto my true friend,

.Kolin.

He gently took your place, comforting me.

But never truly, would he be able to

replace all those days.

The days in the past.

As our young selves would swing.

High into the sky,

Leaving everything behind.

Never would he be able to

Make me forget.

All of the memories,

I have etched in my heart.

The weeks moved by slowly,

and I loosened my grip,

I was letting you go

For there was no

stopping you

now.

On graduation day, I silently cried.

You asked me if I was okay,

And I smiled the tears

out of my eyes.

As we are now,

the immature freshmen,

We have our own groups,

Now, rather than then.

The rope slid from my hands

as I saw you with your new,

best friend.

I smiled again, knowing you were happy,

but a tear slid,

as I knew,

I had

just lost

my best friend.

I looked away from you,

but I needed just one

final glance,

so I could

whisper,

"Goodbye, friend."

One day in the hall,

I stood by my locker,

I to had a new friend,

one who was loyal and true.

Emily.

But I knew she would never replace you.

So as I stood,

at the end of the day,

readying to leave,

I turned to see

you.

You smiled faintly,

'How have you been?'

'Better' I replied.

'Is anything new?' you said.

I wished I could say,

"Yes, many things are new.

How I lost my best friend.

Kolin and Michael

have forgotten

your name.

Yes, and mine too.

Oh, and I too have a new best friend.

Emily,

she is much more loyal,

we have plently of laughs.

But. . .

She will never replace you.

I wish I knew what had happened.

How a friendship of nine years,

could just disinigrate into nothing.

How could you stab my in the back,

but worse,

in the heart,

you abanoned me

and our friendship,

and left it there

to rot.

Please tell me, how,

How could you do all those things. . ."

I held back the desire to tellyou all of these things.

I just smiled and said,

'No, nothing is new.'

Tears were forming in my eyes,

so I turned and walked away,

But before I finally could let it end,

I heard you softly say,

'Goodbye, friend.'