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Best Friends
If you'd go into the woods and sightsee,
you'd probably miss this clearing behind two old oak trees.
But these two boys noticed
as they were walking through the forest,
and now the friends lean on a tree,
listening to the sounds of the creek
once or twice each week.
***
The look on his face
as he enters their favorite place
is always one of wonder and love.
He turns back to his friend
and, as is the trend,
takes the other boy's hand.
The two boys
hear nothing but white noise
as they crawl through the small space
between the two old oak trees.
Nothing could ever replace
this time or place
when they can sit with each other and just be.
***
Their unintentionally hidden secret is where the friends
announce, without words, that they will always go to the ends
of the earth for each other.
The know their deep affinity
for one another will last them infinity
because they know where they belong
—together—when nature sings her song;
it doesn't matter whether they get older and stronger,
if their lives get longer,
because they have a special kind of friendship
that all friends should have.
***
"Forever," the smaller one whispers
as they gaze up at the stars.
The taller boy agrees, saying, "Yes, forever," intertwining their fingers.
"And I hope we never forget that,
no matter what, this, this is ours."
They smile sleepily at each other,
having conversations with their eyes
which are shining bright under the night skies.
***
Ten years later, the boys will laugh and remember
fondly the way they always held hands, always used to say "forever".
They'll remember how they often fell asleep in each others' arms
and depended on each other so much their parents were a bit alarmed.
Even then, if you'll look you'll see
two grown men reminiscing in the forest behind two old oak trees.
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