For Hoy

If ever troubled in my mind,

In need of someone’s care;
Forever just a step behind
I’d turn to find you there.

Whenever things went wrong for me

I always turned to you’
Persistently I failed to see
The pain I put you through.

Beneath an ever jealous sun

We laughed each year away,
To finish off what had begun
Some long forgotten day.

It is as friends that we survived

Each day time makes us start;
As friends we kept ourselves alive –
It is as friends we’ll part.

No one else can ever know

The ups and downs we’ve had,
The tears that we will never show,
The times of feeling sad.

And it’s so hard to keep for long

The friendships that we make,
And promise to let the bond go on –
A promise that we’ll break.

I tried to make it on my own

But always needed you.
I doubt if we will sing alone
The songs that once we knew.