My Best Friend - A Soldier

"What do you mean
You won't be here for three years?
Why are you telling me
'Please don't cry anymore tears?'

Are you trying to say
That you signed up for the army?
And that you're spending three years alone?
Three years without me?

Do you have any idea
How dangerous it is to leave me alone
Especially at a time like this
When I can't even contact you through phone.

And here you are
Planning to leave so quickly?
Without you in my life
Do you know what I'd be?"

My best friend in the world
Was leaving me in the summer for three years
I had to watch him go
Not being able to hold in my tears

Even though he was just
Going to the Marines to train
And he'd be back in three years
I still felt a sharp pain

Something inside me
Felt that he'd be shipped off soon
As I sat alone staring blankly
In the middle of noon

Three years went by
I withstood the pain without him
Everyday since the day he left though
My heart continued to grow dim.

I waited and waited
For the phone call that he's back
Coz everyone's noticed now
That without him, my heart's black

And then the day finally came
He was finally back from there
As he arrived on my porch
His eyes were full of care

He pulled me in for a hug
My life finally came back to me
My best friend finally came back
Now I was as happy as I could ever be

But that happiness soon disappeared
As he was to be shipped out to war
My heart dropped to its lowest
As he walked through my door.

Next thing I knew, he was gone
I couldn't see him anymore
I prayed every night for him to come back
As safe and healthy as before

But that didn't happen
And can you guess what did?
Something that scarred me for life
That from me, everyone hid.

He had died
He was killed in that fight
Died for something I was against
I cried every night

My heart was split in half
It lay shattered on the ground
And I, curled up in a corner
Crying, when no one else was around.

Now I'm sitting here
Remembering our past
The friendship that we had
Will forever last.

First we were strangers
Then we simply knew each other
Next we fell in love
And wanted to be together

Then the feelings disappeared
Because society wouldn't accept us
No matter how much we wanted to be together
It was all completely useless

So then we became the best of friends
The closest that friends can get
I'll never forget the memories we shared
Like the moment we first met ...
[c] 2O06 MiNDY HUANG