We Will Be Friends

You will be my best friend. You will talk to me, and I will listen. I will talk to you, and you will listen For the most part. We will have conversations. We will talk about everything and nothing And we will learn nothing about each other from it At all. You will be my most trusted friend. You will let me talk about my problems, dilemmas, conflicts, and you will not laugh at me To my face. You will tell me that you like my shirt Though you will not remember that is was purple tomorrow You will tell me that my hair looks stupid when it is down Because what are friends for After all? You will be my confidante. You will learn that I am in love with the boy with green eyes You won’t breath a word of this to him Just to his friends. You will tell me that my secrets are safe with you You’ll keep my words behind your lips that are drawn so tightly That they’re transparent. You will be my oldest friend We will go to school together all year I will see you in the halls with your other friends and you will look at me And then look away You will remember to say hi When we are forced to be partners in class I will see you everyday And when you don’t see me And I will scream in my head “What did I do? What did I do?”