Empty Sunbed Poem by Twilight Whispers

There’s an empty sun-bed on the beach
The sand beneath it glistens in the sunlight
The homely parasol hangs a friendly shadow
Reminders of you now, far away.

We used to sit there together, on that sun-bed,
Watching the clouds roll by in pretty shapes.
I can’t help but remember how happy we were,
How peaceful the world seemed,
When we walked arm in arm across the shore,
Tinkling our toes in the icy water,
Breathing in the stillness surrounding us.

Nothing seemed to worry us!
Nothing seemed to matter,
But our friendship, ignited by the
Wishes we threw into the sea,
Stayed sweetly smiling.

But the empty sun-bed lies
Lonely and cold, I saw it again,
Not so long ago.
But it’s not the same anymore,
How can it possibly be?
We’re not anywhere near it.
Well, not together, anyway.

Do you remember how long we’d sit here?
Just being peaceful.
Do you remember going out in the boat
And rowing away into the ocean together?
We're not from around here, we didn’t
Even live anywhere near each other,
But we didn’t care.

Because we knew that
Real friendship,
True friendship doesn’t need close distances.
It doesn’t need to have flowers blossoming
In the height of summer, to remind us
Of all the times we’d run through air conditioned
Corridors together, playing get-away from the
Silly entertainer-man who liked to
Sneak upon us and tell us corny jokes.
A friendship like ours doesn’t need the stars to shine
Brightly each night to show how happy
We are to be friends,
Because in our hearts, we know that
The stars we gaze at from our bedroom windows
At night, they’re the same stars,
In the same sky,
Surrounding the same planet.

When we think of it like that, we don’t seem so far from each other.