Goodbye Old Friend

Old friend, how could you have slipped away As shadows faded at dawn of day And I blissfully unaware In slumber lay? When last we met and shared some wine Laughed together, feeling fine How could we not know It was our last? We talked of this and some of that Remembered school friends while we sat Never dreaming for a moment We would part We reminisced of days gone by How the years seem to fly All the while not knowing You would die Now I stand alone to grieve Not believing you would leave Without first telling me Goodbye As you ascend up in the sky To your Home in Heaven on high Remember I loved you And reserve a room for me! Copyright ©Beatrice Boyle (All rights reserved)