• Best Friends:

    I thought it could last forever,
    You and I, being together,
    Those moments of laughter in class,
    Shared over senseless jokes
    Peppered by clumsy stares,
    Into one another’s unripe faces.

    I adored you,
    Everything, from your broad shoes
    To your rippling, golden hair
    And your hands, they mesmerized me,
    Clad in jingling bangles with
    Fingers that always danced about.
    Along with hips that strut,
    Always, to your unique cadence.

    I thought you adored me too,
    When you turned your wan blues eyes to mine,
    And how I could see my smile echoed in your face,
    The way the moon finds itself in the sea.

    Best friends, rent apart,
    By fateful choices taken through time,
    I tried to confront,
    You over your choices, and me over mine.
    Your path was full of laughter and love,
    Of acting, passion, art, and voice,
    Of clear dreams and earnest hopes,
    Expressed upon an open stage.
    While I saw only a desolate pile of homework before me,
    Loaded with menacing books and broken pencils,
    Stacked high into a misty sky,
    One without the guiding light of wishing stars.
    Small wonder that I lost the will to climb.
    As your arms no longer jingled for me,
    And the moon was swallowed by the night.
    I waited for you at the playground,
    And you never came,
    Leaving me on swings that could not fly.

    Waiting in the windswept night,
    Eyes turned upwards towards unlit clouds,
    I searched for something I knew had fled,
    But some yearning hope kept me there,
    Until the early sun arose,
    A guiding light after a starless night,
    Urging me forth, urging me to leave.
    Its radiance shown upon the frosted ground,
    All that remained:
    A frozen butterfly, a mangled shell of fleeting colors,
    Yet sadder for having once been beautiful.

    I have no regrets for our diverged path.
    But that I tried to chase you and it set me back.