Fondest Friends

Lengthier poem

Farewell, yonder friends, farewell

In heart you remain

Smiling faces one and all

My sadness that those years

Have scattered like dust to wind

Remembrance of joyful times

Rends my heart asunder

It brings me hope though

That life will be joyous for you

Even if it brings pain and sorrow for me

For my dearest memories

Are those of you in my heart

My love of you my friends