You Are My Friend
unpublished
 

You are my friend,

And even though I haven’t met you today,

You are still my friend,

And on our beginning I will approach you that way.

You are important to me,

Yes it is true I have yet to know your name,

Still you matter

And that simple truth will always remain.

If by chance we never met

for your path in life has passed mine by

I wish you a following wind,

And hope your life’s walk is under a brilliant blue sky

If by happen-stance

You and I find ourselves standing face to face

In that lucky chance

Let us speak of friendship and in friendship embrace

Or perhaps as we met

We found that our friendship was not to be

Then leave me knowing

That the burden of the failure of friendship rests with me

As time goes by

And you and I find ourselves at a separate journey’s end

Then please remember

on life’s last breath, we once were, and will always be, friends.