Tribute to You my Friend

the text i got this morning

" Good friends care for each other
Close friends understand each other
True friends stay forever beyond words"


this friend of mine is not physically close
but each time we speak we are close


i don't call you my friend cos you called me last night or paid for that meal
or visited me last sunday, or gave me that bear hug or that kiss that i wondered to myself
when would this end


i am speaking about you dear friend, who by everyone's judgment
you are no way to go

your story is so messy that i say dear your life is a movie
your life is like a playboy mag, some times it is one tree hill, other times it is arm chair thriller
then those days it was pinky and the brain you know we got those times when we said if the world
turns their back on you, you turn your back on the world

then we said again Ha kuna mata

you are everything i hate but you inspire me
i admire your strength, you are the bright side
i wish i had your story
but i will be crushed if i was ever you even for a split second

you have had the good and the bad
but i love you so dearly cos lurking around in your darkness i learnt that
experience made the best of students
cuddling under your warmth has given me strength to be me
dancing in your light has made me happier, knowing that the road to true happiness is decorated with
tears and sadness so that we can be truly happy

i tell how good you are because you went headlong embracing temptations
and emerged better
you drank and ate mistakes and gave me the story i now tell


you are my mentor and friend because my life is shaped by the coarse surface of yours

i have made my mistakes and was a replica of you

but i adore you, cos the words you said gave me strength to pull out
i drowned in temptations but your words and attitude brought me to the surface

i no longer seek safety cos i know that safety is in the war cos its only in the war that you learn
survival and i know now my safety routes

so i live my life knowing that iron sharpens iron
and fire purifies

you give me strength and that is why i love you
you don't have to be anybody
you are my friend and i love who you have become and i adore who you were
you will never be that person again
that person was for a reason, that reason was me, that person was the manual i needed
to be who i am now

your true friend

this is my tribute to you