2007年3月27日火曜日

Poem - copy, paste, explain

A Friend's Greeting

I'd like to be the sort of friend that
you have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that
you've been always glad to be;

I'd like to mean as much to you
each minute of the day
As you have meant, old friend of mine,
to me along the way.

I'd like to do the big things and
the splendid things for you,
To brush the gray from out your skies
and leave them only blue;

I'd like to say the kindly things that
I so oft have heard,
And feel that I could rouse your soul
the way that mine you've stirred.

I'd like to give you back the joy
that you have given me,
Yet that were wishing you a need
I hope will never be;

I'd like to make you feel as rich as I,
who travel on
Undaunted in the darkest hours
with you to lean upon.

I'm wishing at this time that
I could but repay
A portion of the gladness that
you've strewn along my way;

And could I have one wish this year,
this only would it be:
I'd like to be the sort of friend
that you have been to me.

- Edgar A Guest -
This is the poem I found in a site. I like it because I sympathized with it very much. I like the last phrase, "I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me." He said the same thing in the first place. After he said it first, he told what sort of friend he want to be. Then, he repeated this phrase. I like this way of writing too.
After I left Japan and came to the United State, I realized the importance of friends again. I was helped by a lot of friends many times. When I came here first, I didn't have any friends here. I couldn't even speak English well. At the case like that, I got a lot of mails from friends in Japan. I couldn't stop crying and thought I have to do my best. And I got a lot of friends here. They also helped and encouraged me a lot. Friends are irreplaceable asset to me. As they helped me, I want to help them. As they make me happy, I want to make them happy. I'd like to be the sort of friend that they have been to me.

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