Around the corner <br />I have a friend <br />In this great city <br />That has no end <br /> <br />Yet the days go by <br />And weeks rush on <br />And before I know it <br />A year is gone <br /> <br />And I never see my <br />Old friends face <br />For life is a swift <br />And terrible race <br /> <br />He knows I like him <br />Just as well <br />As in the days when <br />I rang his bell <br /> <br />And he rang mine if <br />We were younger then <br />And now we are busy <br />Tired men <br /> <br />Tired of playing a <br />Foolish game <br />Tired of trying to <br />Make a name <br /> <br />'Tomorrow' I say 'I <br />Will call on Jim <br />Just to show that <br />I'm thinking of him” <br /> <br />But tomorrow comes <br />And tomorrow goes <br />And distance between <br />Us grows and grows <br /> <br />Around the corner <br />Yet miles away <br />'Here's a telegram sir <br />Jim died today” <br /> <br />And that's what we get <br />And deserve in the end <br />Around the corner <br />A vanished friend<br /><br />Anders Lim<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-vanished-friend/
