[00:00.00]He offered his assistance,
[00:02.39]whenever I needed it.
[00:04.14]He offered his company for comfort,
[00:06.11]when death visited my door.
[00:08.85]What did he derive from
[00:11.14]this agenda, but a few
[00:13.33]paltry words in a foreign language?
[00:15.74] Maybe it was all worthwhile,
[00:17.82]maybe it will open a window wide
[00:19.90]and provide a passport to
[00:22.08]a new world for his future.
[00:23.94]Time continues to slip
[00:27.01]by as a rushing river.
[00:28.65]You no longer inhabit my daily
[00:31.27]world, only my memory.
[00:34.01]From a distance your voice
[00:36.09]informs me that you are
[00:37.73]continuing to learn, you are growing.
[00:40.14]Some days you are happy,
[00:42.43]others not quite so much.
[00:44.62]However, here around me,
[00:48.34]there is nothing, only a ghost
[00:50.09]like figure, waving from your window
[00:53.16]and a familiar waft of fragrance
[00:55.46]as I stand alongside
[00:56.99]your newly occupied desk.
[00:59.72]There is nothing and
[01:01.91]yet there is everything.
[01:03.33]My mind remains idle,
[01:05.63]with only fragments of images
[01:08.04]drifting in and out.
[01:10.11]I can no longer be
[01:12.09]absolutely certain whether
[01:13.84]this was only a dream.
[01:15.59]We no longer occupy
[01:18.54]the same space, but
[01:20.72]I remind myself that
[01:22.26]we still occupy the same world.
[01:24.34]When we chance to meet,
[01:27.08]hands reach out, hearts embrace,
[01:29.70]and once again confirm
[01:31.35]the same magic feeling.
[01:33.44]Such friendships come
[01:35.76]rarely in a lifetime.
[01:38.17]Thereby, I feel blessed and lucky |