Gone

As it was storming yesterday, thoughts of someone came to mind... I thought about how I looked forward to talking to him and with just a text how he made me smile.  I thought about how that’s all gone now and I wonder why... Like the storm this friend came into my life unpredicted, wild and crazy pouring out every feeling he had, gloomy and scared, not knowing what he was going to do or even where he was going.. I tried to be an umbrella for him. A safe haven, someone he could trust in a time of uncertain, I thought I was that for him. I’m sure I was that... but as the sun came up and the storm was gone, so was he, as the sun came up on his life and as things stared to get brighter and better, he had no need for the shelter of our friendship, he didn’t need that safe haven anymore..  It makes me wonder why he was even brought into my life, just to leave it as quickly as he came to it...  but then with each storm that comes along I know why,, because at the time, this friend of mine need me, needed a friend to wait out the storm with,, all I can do now is hope for the best, and hope that when the next storm comes into his life, he will remember the friend that was there for him, waiting out the storm with him.

by DF