Inner Woman Volume 2
26 Best Friends

We’ll always be best friends

I said and I meant it

before I knew parents can

be so cruel

Across the back alley,

one girl with four brothers

we found each other

where they were building

a house upon a hill of dirt

The snow was perfect

The slope just right

skidding down it

an absolute delight

Four years old

we clutched each other

differences didn’t

matter,

she was short

I was not

Two different cultures

tied in a friendship knot

From there we were inseparable

might as well be twins

And when her father decided

to move

The tears we shed twined down

cheeks touching

as we shared our

pain

I’ll never forget you

I’ll come back to visit

But our parents

didn’t see eye to eye

the break

it was complete

I mourned the loss

six years together

I haven’t had another

I trusted quite the same

And as I grew

I still knew

I had to say the same

We’ll always be best friends

I had to try again