"When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy." - a quotation from Anonymous / This poem deals with a very very very old friend and another who I still have. The first person I will never forget. But I think that person has forgotten me��� But when I was younger I had the courage to speak up for myself afterwards because of him (I was a shy person back then) and I thank this person for being the one to help me out. If I got to meet this person again, know what I'll do? I'd give this person a friendly hug and say thanx for what you've done.
I remember this person a lot. And to tell you the truth, I have excellent memory. I can remember faces from the past very well or memorize things with ease. I have photogenic memory but that's a different story. I guess I was born with it. Aside from the digression, I don't understand why this person sticks out of my memory bank so well. And last night I had a dream about spiders, zombies, and this very person��� Very strange, the mind is you know?
It was back in the fifth grade, Language Arts class. I remember well. I think this person was in the fourth grade. And I believe I'm older than this person.
One thing I can remember was that this person was very nosy. LOL! Not in a bad way but in a good, highly affable way. This person would ask me (and once again, like I said, "I have extremely sharp memory"), things like:
"What church you go to?" or "Do you have a library card?"
Questions like these bombarded me everyday in class. I just smiled and nodded. Answered what the person wanted and smiled some more. But it was fun you know! I got to open up because of this person! I learned to not be shy.
But this person from what I remember has a strange sense of humor. One time this person asked me:
"How do you spell 'little' ?"
I said, "L-I-T-T-L-E."
He said, "Ha ha! You said tee-tee! (Titties the person meant)"
I looked at him saying to myself "Um, okay���" and laughed.
Another time this person asked, "Do you eat buffalo chips?"
I didn't know what it was so I said yes, "Ya, of course."
He laughed and I found out that buffalo chips were actually buffalo fecal matter, or to be blunt, buffalo shit!
He'd tell me lots of things in his life though I don't know why.
Like for example, he told me personal things like, "I'm going to have a baby brother soon" and so and so forth.
Yup, memories like these I can remember clearly. LOL! This person was really strange but I liked him. I always wondered even today: Where did he come up with those strange topics? Does he have a sick sense of humor somewhere in his head as a kid? LOL! Anywayz, good laughs to remember. Makes you feel warm inside to remember an old friend.
Oh! There was this one time in language arts class we had this little spelling competition. You know, where the class is divided into half. So what happened was that I was on one side he was on the other. What we had to do was we were given a word and we have to spell that word by writing it on the board as fast as we could. Whoever wrote the correct spelling the fastest earned a point for their team. Here was what happened. After going, I don't know, one or two full rounds both of us ended up against each other. Now this is the part I have to laugh at. We we're given some word, I don't remember what but when we both wrote it was frantic!!! In the end, (ahem), like always I won (sorry, I'm being a little pretentious! LOL!) but with him I won against him by a hair. I can tell he was really competitive with me. Like he wanted to match up to me. I have no problem with that. I guess I wasn't "alone." That's why.
The only problem with this person is that I've lost touch with him over the years. It's been about eleven years since I've last seen or spoke to him and I can never find him again no matter what I did. Sad huh?
The second person person who I remember is someone who I look up to like an older brother even though we're not related. It's funny. I haven't seen him in quite a while but I really do miss him too. A very good friend to be around, you know? I'm sorry you had to go to such tedious lengths to read this comment. I'm just a little bored and lonely tonight. I don't have anyone to talk to... Thanx once again whoever you are!
I love what you had to write about in this poem. A friendship that you think about to make you happy, and that's what I sometimes do very often in my life when I feel as if everything is going wrong, and that I'd often feel as if I am going down into a spiral of nothing, and then I close my eyes to know and realize that I have friends who care about me, and having friends is really important in a person's life, and I seriously mean that. I really love what you had to write about in this poem. You're extremely talented, and I so totally wanted you to know that!! =)
It's good that you have such good friendships. I've written some poems about certain friends of mine. Most of them don't comment on them or seem to appreciate the work it took to write it. I hope you don't come across this reaction.
lucky are the friends u have :)
i enjoyed reading ur comment on that poem...
a Damaged crazy soul
I think this is a great friendship ode. Your comments help the reader better understand where you are coming from and if you did not feel you needed a lengthy author comment you would not have written it. If one is to read anothers work and understand it more,its important to read the author comment as well whether long or short..