Must be the coming season

I am not one for cute sayings and twee poems but this one somehow hit home.

 

Around the corner I have a friend

In this great city that has no end

But the days go by and the weeks rush on

And before I know it a year has gone

And I never see my old friends face

For life is swift and a terrible race

He knows I like him just as well

As in the days when I rang his bell

And he rang mine - we were younger then

Now we are busy, tired old men.

Tired of playing a foolish game,

Tired of trying to make a name

Tomorrow I say "I will call on Jim

just to show I am thinking of him"

But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes

And distance between us grows and grows

From around the corner, yet miles away

"Here's a telegram sir" "Jim died today"

And that's what we get and deserve in the end

Around the corner, a vanished friend.

MORAL

So stay close to your family and friends

for they have helped to make you the person you are today.