Best of Friends

 

From different places of departure

we met on the same road of life

probably because we were so alike

Our backgrounds could not have been more different

but from our wanderings a bond was formed

a deep abiding friendship built on a sure foundation

of mutual love and trust

Confidences were respected, humour often ribald

We were spiritually atuned and richly blessed

His wife and two boys were the finest

his pride and joy

We often sat for hours and talked the time away

never a dull moment was scored

A symbiosis of love and trust, a brother indeed

He often reproved and warned

I should have taken more heed

He spoke with clarity and wisdom, now sadly missed

Early one Sunday his wife called to say he had died

playing on a rugby field

Tears welled as I became distraught

I sobbed bitterly, alone, unable to comprehend

yet found solace that his passing was not the end.

Nor ever could be