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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=362377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Forever Friend</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Mike Bird<br>1943 - 2005<br>My forever friend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I never though I’d have to say<br>The words I did over you <br>As they lowered you slowly into the ground<br>But there was one else<br>To say them, only me.<br>We’d been friends<br>For over forty years<br>At times we were almost brothers<br>Many happy Christmases you spent with my wife and me.<br>You became part of our extended family<br>You were an only child <br>and when your parents passed away<br>We befriended each other<br>During troubles and hardships<br>Through the years that came our way<br>Our friendship was strong<br>Even when for some reason or another<br>We didn’t see each other for a while<br>We never argued or raised our voices<br>Whenever we disagreed<br>Which I recall, wasn’t often<br>I remember you only getting heated<br>When some publisher rejected me<br>Saying “The fools, can’t they see.”<br>They were my failures, but you took them to heart.<br>Whenever you succeeded <br>I was first to congratulate you<br>I am so proud to have had you as my friend<br>Words can’t express the sorrow that I felt<br>When they said you had gone<br>I wanted to be on my own<br>Go somewhere and cry<br>Unfortunately responsibilities made me pass that by<br>Your cousins all the time you were alive<br>They stayed away from you <br>Didn’t even want you in their homes<br>Then they heard you were dying<br>Out of the wood work they came<br>To see what they could get<br>Oh, what a shame<br>They never knew<br>You didn’t have a penny to your name<br>He wasn’t religious they proclaimed<br>So no priest was sought<br>We gathered in the chapel<br>Only seven people came<br>Someone read a eulogy <br>But they didn’t know the real you <br>And that was that<br>I was asked to say a few words<br>As they lowered your coffin into the ground<br>With a lump in my throat, eyes full of tears<br>In a voice choked and low<br>I asked God to look after and protect <br>Your immortal soul<br>I held your wake at my house<br>Where you had spent so many happy times<br>I talked about you to your cousins<br>And they found out more about you <br>Than they ever knew<br>When they left and I was alone with my thoughts<br>I said a silent prayer for you<br>You my forever friend</div><div style="margin:10px 0">26-27 Jan 2007</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Harris">David Harris</a><div class=q>
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1943 - 2005
My forever friend.

I never though I’d have to say
The words I did over you 
As they lowered you slowly into the ground
But there was one else
To say them, only me.
We’d been friends
For over forty years
At times we w..."></div>
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