The Tale of Best Friends

heart in heart hand in hand together they stood facing the world broken homes and despair dreams they at least had one another year after year they grow from hiding under the sheets from harmful parents and playing under the bed with cuddly kittens whispering all their fears and hopes in one other ears writing notes and hearts with boys name the outside could not touch them for their love was the proctor soul mates "is what we are" swinging together on the playground though the emotional teen years and all the heart brakes and even petty fights their love kept strong deaths and marriages come along hand in hand they comfort one other holding each other babies laughing saying "forever" but the hands start to crack and love is fading on one side the friend tries to hold yet the grip is slipping left standing outreaching for the "forever" that will never come