Everything that I love...

(This ones for you Mandy)

we thought we would
never grow old

we thought nothing could
ever tear us apart

we thought that childhood
lasted forever

but we were wrong

I remember believing in
happily ever after

but when I stepped on that plane
I knew

I knew that it was over
that all this dreaming and hoping
would come to an end

that I was never going
to be the same person.

that from that moment
everything was going to change

that was when I said goodbye
goodbye to the life I had

I dreamt months after,
of drifting

of our phone calls fading
of you forgetting my name

of never seeing you
ever again

I lived in fear

but you kept calling
kept listening

I'd dial the phone
close to tears,

but when you said 'hello'
everything was alright

because your voice
brought back

all those times we'd spent
laughing and smiling together

your voice brought back the truth
the truth that no amount
of distance can ever separate
the purest of love:

friendship.

since that realization
I've been happy
truly happy

because I know that
no matter where I go

you'll always be there for me
when things go wrong

if anything happened to you
I don't know what I would do

because you are
what keeps me going

when I'm so far away
from everything

that I love