My Hidden Treasure
Empty.
That is how losing a friend feels.
Due to some circumstances I couldn’t control, I just recently lost a friend. No, he didn’t die, but the loss feels the same, at least for me. We didn’t drift apart, though that would have been much easier to bear. Our friendship was cut short by some external force, as it was just budding. It didn’t even get the chance to blossom into the beautiful flower it could have been.
I feel deeply when it comes to my friends. It’s because I don’t have a lot of them. There’s this adage friends are gold. I don’t have a chest full of gold coins, what I have is just a bagful of priceless gold bullions. And losing just one of them already is a huge loss.
I’ve lost friends in the past, while some of them drifted away. But most of the time, I was able to recover them. It took some effort for me to recover some, while some just showed up out of the blue, like I never lost them at all.
So, even as I mourn this loss, I am pretty sure I will get you back, friend. Just you wait. That’s a threat. :)