A Lifelong Love

At 5 we met

Two kids just starting out

At 6 we looked

Too scared to truly speak

At 7 we talked

Who knew we would be so alike

At 8 we were together

No one thought we’d end up like we did

At 9 we sat together

Our teacher didn’t know what was coming

At 10 I got sick

She held my hand the whole way

At 11 we were inseparable

No one could tear us apart

At 12 she broke

I held her as she let her mother go

At 13 we lived

The world was ours

At 14 we fought

Two headstrong girls who were “right”

At 15 we drifted

Life takes us down two different roads

At 16 we were strangers

Living with a missing piece

At 17 we reunited

With boyfriends on our arms

At 18 we graduated

With tears in our eyes we whispered

“we made it”

-my life with my best friend