02/09/2025
Friends On Pause ⏸️
When we were young, we would talk for hours.
Summers felt like they would last forever
There was always tomorrow.
Time could never touch us.
Then life takes you by the hand
Adventures, distance, commitments
Slowly mount, moving us apart.
Friendships become shorter
Some chapters and others paragraphs.
Parenthood brings new bonds,
But like those before, they begin to fall.
From long conversations at the school gate
To a passing wave at the bus stop
The quiet realisation comes, something is missing.
Adulthood is both full and hollow.
Overflowing with obligation and responsibility,
Yet always sifting away connection.
I don’t know your deepest secrets anymore
The ones you once rushed to share.
The other lives you may be living,
The silent pains and battles already fought.
To my many friends along the way,
Please know I think of you often.
I wonder how life is beneath the photos and posts.
If your soul is content and your dreams came true?
I wish you strength in the toughest of times
Send you light for when your world goes dark
And love, always
In whatever form it may take.
I look forward to the day
When we refill our empty nests,
And reclaim friendship
As if it were never lost.
I love you.
R 💖
