I can feel the space between us increasing. Our minds no longer connected.
What has happened?
When did my best friend become my acquaintance?
When did life become so new?

17 years of friendship gone. Laughter and love suddenly dispersed.

I never believed what they say. You drift from those you love, as you get older.
I never thought it would happen to us.
Now suddenly, you’re a stranger.
Someone I don't recognize.

Why did it have to happen to us?
Why did I have to experience more despair and heartache?
A 17-year-old girl should not feel this much sorrow.

Why am I still holding on?
As tight as I possibly can,
To a friendship that no longer exists

Perhaps if I just let go it wouldn’t hurt so bad
Then why am I still holding on?

Perhaps I believe this drifting will end and something magnificent will come

Like a rainbow after a massive storm

But for now I must let go of what I no longer have

On my count

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