Lost Friends

Friends are forever
But I have lost many down the line
I hold on to worldly things
Which have no value over time

Friends in school
Are all but gone
I still remember the day
When we sang ice-ice baby song

The hockey matches we played
And partners in crime
The conversations and laughs
Are forever etched in time

We are all on whatsapp
But a ghost of the past
Many are well connected
But I failed to make it last

Friends in college
Have all gone different ways
Scattered over the globe
and some in other states

The classes we bunked
to face challenges of youth
The carrom we played
was pretty wacky and smooth

Drinking that first beer
Gathering courage to ask her out
Cramming the last few days
In flying colours we passed out

We are all on whatsapp
Due to connectivity of a few
A faint memory of those days
When we were immature but true

What I will give to go back in time
To live those days again with passion
But throw out my masks this time

I will make better bonds
and closer friends
And then this life
and whatsapp groups
will make more sense
°°°°°°°Jibrael Jos