Always Friends
Like flowers strewn across my path
True friends come but once in a while
I'm glad i was never an odd tail apart
When fairies of friendship beckoned their hands of tide
Bells of true friendship toll at last
Like sweet music while on my bed i lie.


Destiny had us thrown in the same ship
But only real love for each other bound us together as friends.
There is a space in my heart that is filed with so much love
There are strings so tightly attached to this space
Bound to you is a string so strong
Time,distance,fate... nothing will erase
Cherished memories of you from my heart
Which i got
Once in a life time.

Perfect friends?
Nothing like it!
In my search for friendship true,
I learned never to seek the perfect friend
But to make myself one first of all.
Reminiscing on times spent together,
All i remember are
Bitter - sweet but cherished memories;
The love, the anger, the joys and the pains,
The highs, the lows, the ups and the downs;
All contributes to one pointing fact:
Nothing could be more perfect than
Living, Loving, Linking and Learning from each others lives,
What more could perfect friendship define?

Looking back now,
The meaning of your anger stares at me in the face:
Because i have come to  learn that, truly,   
Anger is the fluid love bleeds when it is cut.
I read this so many times in you.
The sweet nectar of a budding flower
Is not found on its bright petals
Only a pain-staking unwrapping of several layers
Will reveal the sweetness embedded within.


Be good. Always. Even when it hurts.
My feeble prayers for you can only go thus:
When the gentle drizzle of the falling rain
Touches your panes like silvery diamonds,
May it register nothing but a deep calm in your soul.
And like a ray of light in a dark tunnel,
May grace for each troubled moment
Come your way.

Mere words will fail me
To tell or write it all
Just the way it is in my racing heart.
I have been told that there are
Wonderful people whose thoughts never leave the heart,
Your thoughts will ever remain in the echoing chambers of my soul
Remember, our friendship can only spell one word -
F - O - R - E - V - E - R.


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Ruth Deola Oni. 22. Nigeria