Homage to an old friend

Every time I look back

At all the things I’ve done

I feel this astounding sense of achievement

To think, you thought you won

Whenever I look at you

You’re wearing lucid, hateful eyes

You swallowed all my dignity

But you can’t take away my pride

Whenever I walk past you

With that evil smirk on your face

Walking round inside your bubble

As if you own the place

I always feel amazed

That I believed the hype

That you were the only human being

That I needed to like

I almost can’t believe

The person I become

I know you can’t believe it either

Cause you still think you have won

I always get the impression

That you’re going no where fast

You’ll always be in this boring town

Talking out of your arse

You may point and laugh at me

You might find me bizarre

You might think I’m the same old person

But you knew right from the start

That I would change as time goes on

And you would be the same

On the rare occasions that I talk to you

I can see that nothings changed

But I have grown inside

And will continue to do so

I don’t know where life will take me

But I know where I want to go