I Have A Friend 



				Around the corner I have a friend,
				In this great city that has no end,
				Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,
				And before I know it, a year is gone.
				And I never see my old friends face,
				For life is a swift and terrible race,
				He knows I like him just as well,
				As in the days when I rang his bell.
				And he rang mine
				If, we were younger then,
				And now we are busy, tired men.
				Tired of playing a foolish game,
				Tired of trying to make a name.
				"Tomorrow" I say "I will call on Jim"
				"Just to show that I'm thinking of him."
				But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,
				And distance between us grows and grows.
				Around the corner!- yet miles away,
				"Here's a telegram sir"
				"Jim died today."
				And that's what we get and deserve in the end.
				Around the corner, a vanished friend.

				     - Henson Towne