This poem , is not of friends name being forgot. It's about time moving on. It is of the affect a friend had had on people and still dus. That what that friend said or did . That are talked about long after that person departed. My father offtan talked


WHEN A FAMILY FREINDS NAME SLIPS THE MEMOREY

Some friendships last longer than life it self , longer after the names are forgot

Story's past down , words of advice , '' your dad , granddad had this friend ,

story follows , flows , entertaining the next genarastion

this friend , cant recall their name , what a friend they must have been , many

a story I herd about them , dame I wish I know the their name , come to think

cant say I know if he's a she or a he , minuet lets ask , your nan's sister, na

she cant , remember , my name half the time!! ,

'' hey watch your tonge , lad '' '' me hearing aides working , Johnny , got me

new batteries the other day!!!'' , '' now who you on about now , Dicky?'' ,

I rely hate that , she says it with a strait face , I swear each time she says

''Dicky'', her eye twitches

Dicky as in ''dicky bow tie?'' , or Dicky as in ''dick head'' , one of theses days I'll

ask the old girl , I was going to something else , knowing my luck she'd read it

man shes got a clout on her like hams so her hands are!!

now what I was saying , oh yes , got back my drift, '' can you remember the

name of that friend your sis went on so much about?'' , she thinks rattles of a

lode of names , each one she shakes her head , ''' na , Dicky I cant recall'', she

told us any way it was your dads mate , as I recall , then off she goes with yet

more stories about this old family friend or at least a friend of dad's or is it

granddad's?

a friend who's name, has slipped away.


Ken (D Williams)

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Written on 2007-05-30 at 23:32

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I like the thought that some friendships last even longer than life... And I enjoyed the conversation throughout, the laughs, too. :)
2013-04-29