I lost a friend, or so I thought.
He said that I was one of his best friends,
once upon a time, long before
this communication drought.
He said he was always honest,
but I think he lied.
If we were really such friends, then
during these four fortnights since we parted,
mine eyes should have stayed dry.
I should've known better, choosing
to see through clear glass. Instead,
I chose to revert my senses to a time
when rose-colors surrounded my head.
So here I am, bearing a new life and
a new path ahead of my tired feet.
Pushing onward to live my life
the way it was always meant to be.
Yes, I would've shared the best of
the best with this friend of mine.
But now that I see clearly, I can't
be to sure that he'll ever return
(even with passed time).
But faith I continue to hold,
belief in more I refuse to let go.
I know that with time, someone
true will come and embrace me in whole.
Author's Notes/Comments:
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
-1 Corinthians 13
