My Friend

My friend how time does slip away
How the years have come and gone
Since you went away forever.
Is you life better, happier
Than it was on earth
Are you swinging on a star
Looking at me from afar.

Memories bring back the happy times
Somewhere long ago in rhyme
Of summer days and long walks
Wandering hand in hand
Like children through
The streets of Manhattan
You and me lost to all
But what we were to one another
The dearest, closest friends on earth

And then you chose to fly
But I had to remain
Many season have come and gone
Time has flown so quickly
Like a wild carousel ride
Whizzing by
But you still remain today
What you were then to me
My dearest friend
You will always be.