Friends of Distinction

Title: Friends of Distinction
Form: Chant Royal
Author: Kristi H.

You are my bud, my sweet,
Friend from all this time,
Kind love, which never fleets.
If we had a long goodbye,
I don't know what I'd do.
I'd hurt from missing you.
My tears would never stop,
My hands would be a mop,
The days would seem so drear,
Normal days would flop,
I like it when you're here.

Our conversations are a treat,
We laugh and smile and sigh,
The jokes are really neat,
I laugh 'till I could cry,
The times we talk are few,
But when added, they construe.
Our group has come to lop,
A few have come to swap,
But there is nothing to fear,
Our worries can be lost,
I like it when you're here.

The past has come to be,
The future's gaze is blithe,
The present is a feat,
Yet, all of time is nigh.
I never, ever knew,
The years would be consumed,
Each day part of the cost,
Though no part of it is naught.
Someday, we'll start careers,
The time spent will be bought.
I like it when you're here.

Have you come to see,
The ending of work's fights,
Will you also miss me,
As we grow old left and right?
The answers will be true,
And we'll try to act cool,
But from the years that brought,
Our added gains and loss,
I hope that time will veer,
Our vast and endless thoughts.
I like it when you're here.

One day our silly dreams,
Will finally come to light,
And our minds will come to seek,
The memories that shine.
The jokes will seem like new,
Conversations will show through,
Joy will reach the top,
Of the highest distance drop.
The dreary skies will clear,
Hopes that had seemed wrought.
I like it when you're here.

But while we look for clues,
That the future's left to brew,
Let stray thoughts be caught,
For there are not a lot.
Teamwork's soft veneer,
The years of friendship taught.
I like it when you're here.

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(The chant royal is a poetic form that consists of five eleven-line stanzas with a rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-d-E and a five-line envoi rhyming d-d-e-d-E or a seven-line envoi c-c-d-d-e-d-E.)