𝑨 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑻𝒐 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑽𝒐𝒊𝒅 [ 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑑 ]

𝑅𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ

At kindergarten, I struggled
to sharpen my pencil -
had to cry because for me,
I did fail.
Grandma, taught me how to -
but what happened when I tried to?
But then someone came,
sharpened it like a dame.
And from that day onwards, I knew
what's friendship.

I took 2nd grade and 4th and 6th -
gathered friends of different kind: some
were naive, boastful,
pretty and thoughful.
But I did care less - for me,
we exchanged stories,
talked about trends; that made us friends.

Years gone by, and the sun-baked teen
in me started to cry -
Been slapped by the realities of
this cruel world -
but where were those friends?
Not dead, but they weren't found.
Were we really friends? Oh no, I didn't know.

'Til I learned how to deal with
things on my own -
afraid to trust people
and promised myself to never
believe in the magic of friendship.
Magic of friendship only lies at Disney,
but not in this world, sweetie.

But then you came - wiped my tears
with your bare hands.
Saved me when you
needed saving too.
Instead of running away
from my own hurricanes,
you decided to dance under it - with me.
If I would enumerate the
things you did for me,
this free verse would be
a page of three
million or mayhap, billion.

So if I would be asked what friendship is, -𝗶'𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲.