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You Didn't Know You Were My Best Friend
My paint on the outside was chipped
and the wallpaper of my rooms was ripped
As I heard my wooden floors creak
the water pipe in the kitchen leaked
I’m a rickety house, slowly falling to my knees
that rests quietly on the corner of Chestnut Street
But despite all of these things that would bring me to defeat
it could never outweigh the parts that make me complete
Like the sound of laughter and the songs we sang
and the taste of the home-cooked dinners we ate
And remember those times mom and dad let us stay
up late those nights when you had school the next day?
When you were younger we would play pretend
Playing those games, oh’ the hours we’d spend…
As if time had no meaning
we’d spend our time dreaming
I still take time to try to comprehend
that all that fun we had would come to an end
I can’t help but chuckle when I stop to think
of the time your mother was soaked after you spilled your drink
Now that I think about it, you were only four
yet you laughed so hard you were rolling on the floor
Then there was preschool, it was your first day
You grabbed your lunch and you were on your way
I was so anxious that our time together was done
I didn’t realize was that our making of memories had just begun
It was the fifth of October of 2005
Your tenth birthday had finally arrived
You had all the friends that you’d made at school
come hang out in the backyard pool
Highschool seemed to come only weeks after that
I was oblivious to all the time that had passed
You were excited to take this new step
but it was something hard for your parents to accept
I remember the night you got ready for prom
and your date came to the door and reached out his arm
You said your goodbyes as you two went off
and there I sat feeling my heart go soft
The last day I saw you, you didn’t even see
how much it hurt that you were leaving me
I could see all the boxes stacked in your room
making their way out since you were leaving soon
I tried to tell you that I didn’t want you to go
but no matter what I did you couldn’t know
You opened the door with the last few things in hand
I tried to scream and yell but you didn’t understand
You walked down the driveway and got in the car
You drove off and now I don’t know where you are
I remain here alone feeling depressed
Our memories are the only thing I have left
You never came back, I waited for years
My eyes are dry because I’ve cried all my tears
I’m only your old, ugly house in the end
How could you have known that you were my best friend?
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This was a piece that I wrote for an English assignment. We had free choice of what we wanted to write, and I had no clue what I was going to do. I spent a couple of days thinking through different ideas and settled on this. It is about a house with emotions and the family, which is oblivious of this, that lives in it. The house is there in all of the family memories and feels like it is a part of the child's life. The house watches the child grow up, and in the end, she moves away, leaving the house alone. It is a one-sided friendship between the house and the child, and since it is only a house, there was no way for it to express that friendship. When the now-grown child moves away, the house is lonely and saddened that child never knew of the friendship between them. It is a different perspective and take on friendship and growing up.