An emo poem for my best friend

Thursday, October 14, 2010

I hate being an emo-tic but I think now's an appropriate time. It's not everyday one loses their best friend of 14 long years, which currently mathematically means I've known Chubby for more than half my life.

And I've always liked to tell people that if Chubby was a younger (human) brother of mine, he would have been a Secondary 2 kid already. Most humans seem to relate to and understand better if I 'humanise' him in this way.

But that's not the point today. I just wanted to share a poem that I came across years ago. It made me sad. It still does today, but worse.

There are a trillion different title for this particupar poem. Some call it Tear Drops, some sites named it Golden Memories. I don't know which is which but it's the content that matters:



They say memories are golden, well, maybe that is true.

I never wanted memories, I only wanted you.

A million times I needed you, A million times I cried.

If love alone could have saved you, you never would have died.

In life I loved you dearly, in death I love you still.

In my heart you hold a place no one could ever fill.

But now I know you want me, to mourn for you no more

And to remember the happy times, Life still has much in store

Since you'd never be forgotten, I pledge to you today,

A hallowed place within my heart is where you'd always stay

If tears could build a stairway and heartache make a lane.

I'd walk the path to Heaven and bring you back again.

Our family chain is broken, and nothing seems the same.

But as God calls us one by one, the chain will link again.

-Author Unknown

CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 11:00 PM