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My Forever Friend

  My childhood friend
  I never knew, back
  when you were young.
  Did you do them then or do them now,
  the same things that I've done?

  Did you roll your pants up to your knees
  and chase fingerlings in the creek?
  Or collect jello'd masses of frog eggs
  along a pond's sun warmed shallows?

  Would you chase fireflies
  on hot summer nights?
  Giggling with excitement
  jar in hand.

  Or sit in the porch swing
  at night watching the heavens.
  Lightening racing across the sky
  or perhaps a falling star, making wishes.

  My dear true friend
  unlike any other.
  Who's allowed share my thoughts
  and sometimes, dreams.

  I wonder do you dream
  of simple pleasures....
  walking thru fields of grass and daisys
  and playing hide and seek among the trees?

  Have you rolled down grassy hillsides
  laughing like a child,
  becoming to dizzy to stand,  then
  lying on your back watching the clouds go by?

  Do you wiggle your toes in the sand
  or chase the waves back into the sea?
  Or perhaps listen to the cries
  of seagulls high over head.

  My life long friend
  when it seems like only yesterday
  that we crossed each other's path
  on life's wonderful journey....

  Will you sit with me on the porch swing
  and watch the lightening flash?
  Or the falling of stars
  and make wishes?

  And maybe imagine we are kids again,
  rolling down grassy hillsides,
  catching fireflies on summer nights,
  chasing the waves into the sea.
  Or perhaps just remember and *giggle*.....

  like old friends do.