In Memory of a Friend

It was but yesterday that we walked hand in hand
together we laughed and played, and sang,
in the wink of an eye the years passed
like scattered seed we grew apart,
trees of life flourished, with fruits and flowers
yet in our hearts those boyhood days stayed ours.

Then why did you break that tie, and go?
How did you forget? how could you be cruel so?
Were you sad that I did not write?
Or did youy go because time was ripe?
Whate'er the cause,your passing I mourn,
and in the dark I sit, and cry alone.