To A Friend
I’m not much of a poet as surely you’ll see
but I want you to know how much you mean to me
a long time ago we met on the docks
now have passed hundreds of thousands of ticks on the clocks
we’ve been through much you and I
shared many a laugh, a fight, a cry
times, seasons, and orbits may change
the facets of life may rearrange
yet your friendship, ever constant remains
and thus I say thanks for who you are
for shared adventures near and far
with you I can simply be
take off my mask that others see
around you I am free
I raise my glass to you my friend, my brother
you are one of a kind, there is no other
P.S. pass me another!