Letters To An Old Friend

Our Friendship Saved The World

A dream is such a strange thing

A little world created around ourselves

So many tales it could sing

For deep inside our psyche it delves

Not only to remind us of our pain

But to nurture, help us grow

To see the truth and help us gain

An understanding we must know

In this little world of mine

One full of magic and spells

There came a moment that would define

The pain in which my mind still dwells

I got to see my past

Through everything that had changed

And through that, myself at last

How much remained unchanged

Looking at the dull destruction

My impassive behavior made

The wreckage of indecision

The rest in which my future laid

It hurt to see myself like that

More than I could tell

Just how much it would impact

And what it would compel

I wanted to take it back

To start again anew

To re-write what I did lack

Go back in time and see it through

Then many came to me

Knowing what I planned to do

They tried to make me see

The damage that could ensue

To cut the threads that intertwine

Would sacrifice everyone I ever met

To hit reverse and redesign

Truly all would be reset

Not one but all would feel the break

Erasing the people that I had touched

A chain reaction that would take

The lives they love so much

For only I would know

We had gone back in time

I would thrive and grow

Untold loss in a world I redefine

And still it did not matter

I intended to go ahead

This reality I would shatter

No matter what they said

The spell I set and cast

The magic I raised and weaved

Telling myself it's over, it's passed

A life not known is not grieved

It was not words that stopped my progression

It was not force, or guilt or pain

It was not reason or compassion

But a memory I could not contain

She smiles standing proud and tall

Vivid in my minds eye

This girl I do recall

One who once told me goodbye

She did not stand before me

In the writhing tunnel of the crossroad

She did not argue, fight, or plea

Though intense emotion overflowed

It was only thoughts of you and me

That pulled me back to ground

Still my sanctuary

Even when you're not around

You made me face my choices

Where no one else could reach

Silent in a sea of voices

Wandering through a wall no one else could breach

So in that special way

Our friendship saved the world

To think that you could sway

Without even saying a word

I received your message in a memory

To think beyond my own desire

Breaking me from my selfish reverie

Keep moving forward through the fire

Nothing will change unless I change it

Altering the past will do no good

To the future I must commit

It's not what I have done but what I still could