Dear Old Friend

Dear old friend,

 

I know you’re out there making new friends.

I know you’re finding more joy out there with them.

I know you’ll completely forget me one day.

All this, I realize only now!

 

Remember that carving we did on our school wall?

It read ‘We’re the world’s best-best-friends!’

Back then, maybe it was true.

Now, I don’t know.

 

Maybe I’m only going through a phase in life.

The phase of moving on,

The phase of moving away.

Yet, I miss you…

My old friend.

 

I really hope that,

One day you’ll open your old treasure box to find,

The friendship locket that I gifted.

I hope you’ll tell your child,

You had a friend like me.

 

Old friend,

You ain’t that old after all!

I keep remembering you daily.

New and fresh in my memories.

 

I wish,

This poem becomes a false one and you remember me today.

We have the same old talks and the same old fun.

Before, we really perish into the time’s fade.