Shroud over Friendship

[shadowling]

My friends please stay here beside me
Lord please don’t take them away
Can’t you teach me that life is fragile?
I some duller less painful way

Death should be saved for the elders
The ones whose paths have been run
Why does cancer trouble children?
What great things they could have done?

Let me keep my friends beside me
Why lord must you take them away
Though I didn’t understand your value
You could have stayed and showed me the way

On the eve I sit here and remember
Lives more worthy then mine
Were you trying to teach me something?
Is this real some kind of sign?

I need my friends beside me
Lord please let them stay
Instead of taking them to dwell among angles
As I have to watch them drift away

Why while the good are dead and buried
Do I still tread this earth?
The lives were gold and silver
Next to them mines of little worth

Lord do not take my friends please
I can ask but one last time
Please people learn you lesson
I keep failing to learn mine

Treat each day with gladness
Like it is the last you’ll see
And tell your friends you love them
You’ll have less to regret then me

- For all the young people who have fallen to cancer before they reached 18. Especially for the ones who attended Special days camp and befriended me before they died. For Devail, Albert, Sara, Anders, and all the others who have been my friends.

Every one please take a step back and take time to value your relation ships with people realize life is fragile and please never, never take it for granted.

[T.J. Barber]

Welcome to Poet Club. Thank you for sharing this poem with us. We appreciate your membersip and hope to see more from yo in the future. God Bless, Tj

[bloodredtears]

this poem is truly beautiful...and very truthful too! great job...and i also want to welcome you to poet club!

[SilverEyes]

I appreciate the fact that you shared this poem with us. It's beautiful in its sadnessstrikes me at the core.

[serenepoetress]

What a sad, yet lovely poem...truly an inspired tribute to those the children you knew and obviously cared for...peace to you dear...this is a most heartfelt scribe that truly touches the reader...

[Celestial]

I verymuch enjoyed this. I do look at my relationships and see how fraigle and precious things like that are. I cherish my friends deeply. There was only one thing I found wrong in there and that is the spelling of 'angel' in this line:
"Instead of taking them to dwell among angles"
where the word angles is, it should read "angels"
other than that I found it most enjoyable! Nice work.

[richie]

beautifull and so sad, your poem moved me,
take care Richie.