Lovers and Friends

by Ifat Lupon, Amal Comprehensive School, Safed

Will you always be here
to help with my little fear?
Will you be here as my friend?
I don't have to ask this question
because the answer I know.
In my imagination,
you are gone, you flew.
But there is something that I want to ask;
I sit and write beside my desk.
I am writing a song for you my love.
I want to know what you are thinking of.
I know that in the end it will be over,
and I know that love doesn't live forever.
But even if I see the love between us fly,
I can't tell a lie,
and tell you that I want to say goodbye.
I will always think of the time we had,
and I hope that you will always be my friend.

This poem previously appeared in TEN - The Youth Newspaper of the Amit & Amal Schools in Safed, Spring 1998.