friends forever…

"Don’t walk before me, "I want someone to laugh with me,
"Will you be my friend, my friend of friends,
beyond every one, everything,
forever and forever?"
I may not follow,
Don’t walk behind me,
I may not lead,
Just walk beside me and be my friend"
someone to be grave with me,
someone to please me and help
my discrimination with his or her own
remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire
my acuteness and penetration."