Brent

this is about my best friend

here it is Brent, its been almost seven years

all this time spent, and I'm still shedding tears

you meant so much to me, it hurts me deep inside

its hard to fathom, through the years, all the tears I've cried

 

everybody tells me that time will heal the pain

but living here without you is making me insane

I wish this was all a bad dream, but it is not

you were my best friend, brother I never forgot

 

you always had my back and there to pick me up

got me through some hard times, when I didn't give a f**k

I haven't forgotten all that you meant to me

I cry when I think about your son, that you never got to see

 

Brent, I love you! and that will never change

you were always there for me, even when I was strange

you've shown me what it means, to truly have a friend

if I could do it over, I'd do it all again

 

I know you're in a better place, smiling down on me

no one can ever take your place on what you've meant to me

I'm crying as I write this, the pain it hurts so bad

you are undeniably the best friend I've ever had

Author's Note

he died when we were 24, and friends for 19 of those years. . .

Reviews

[Colette]

aw Chad...so wonderful of u keep his memory alive. I've heard u speak of him before, and it moves me that you not only have not forgotten him, but honor him. I was forgotten about by the majority of my friends (well, all at least temporarily) when I was the closest to death. It does me good to read your Ode to Brent.

[Geralyn Miller]

A wonderful poignant tribute to a true friend, you were lucky to have him and he was lucky to have you. You can make sure his son knows what a special person he was.