It was 6th grade,
I was
The shy,
Nerdy girl
with glasses, and
You were
The new girl
Behind me
With the coolest Lion King pencil box.
I was Backstreet Boys
And
You were N’Sync,
But we worked.
We were
Trampoline and pool parties,
Sleepovers,
N’Sync dance parties in my backyard,
Beanie Baby toys,
A New Year’s Eve party without electricity,
Boy gossip,
Inseparable,
Best Friends.
And then we weren’t.
Not because of any fights,
Or feuds,
Or dramatic parting of the ways.
But
Because we were teenagers
And
We were Junior High
And
Things change.
We discovered
New friends,
New obsessions.
We are who we are,
Partly because of all the memories
We shared with each other.
Me, the shy,
Nerdy girl with glasses,
And
You, the new girl
Behind me
With the coolest Lion King pencil box.
Learning Through Living 
I love this! I would like to try this sort of poem myself–and I don’t write poems! 🙂 This was beautifully expressed.
This is nice. I am still friends with about 5 of my childhood friends. The relationships have had there ups and downs though and you’ve inspired me to write about them!
Whether you stay in touch or not, the impression those childhood friends made on us last a lifetime. Great poem.
What a beautiful poem. I hope you give a copy of this to your friend.
Great emotions. Love the structure. Inspiring and nostalgic!
I love how you were able to weave in the memories of childhood. The poem is beautiful.
This is fabulous. I love how the structure of this gives credence and thought to each memory (we must be contemporaries–at each one I had to stop to recall my own memories…) It also describes the bittersweetness of growing up and that, for each thing we gain, we also leave something else behind. Brava!
I love this! The sweetness of the little details, the sadness of growing apart, and the way you circled back to the beginning at the end. Everyone has a friend like this, and you’ve described that experience perfectly!
Cool structure. I feel like I was back there in those “old days” with you!