I Lost My Friend

A day ago I lost my friend

How will I survive

You were so much a part of me

You should be alive

A week ago I lost my friend

I struggle every day

I cannot bear to think that you

Again will never play

A month ago I lost my friend

The pain still runs so deep

I know you’re never coming back

And daily I still weep

A year ago I lost my friend

Amazed it’s been that long

Sometimes I’ll look around the house

Then remember you are gone

Decades ago I lost my friend

But I shared other lives

Never did replace our bond

Which through it all survives

A life ago I lost my friend

It seems like yesterday

Memories sweet and meaningful

Have never gone away

I wish I never lost my friend

But life, it does go on

And only through the loss of one

Another sees the dawn

I know I’ll also lose that friend

The pain will start anew

But I would never want to live

Without such friends as you