My Sebastian

My Sebastian
(Dedicated to Evelyn Waugh and Benji Wang)

An unknowingly short season of grace and brotherhood,
A friendship of our own unique kind;

Seasons come, and seasons go,
People change, and people go;

Perhaps not as close, as true, as originally perceived
Our season is gone and over,
And was perhaps not what I previously conceived;

A quiet heartache for a summer long past,
And the slow realization that you are now gone;
Your heart is untamed with rebellion against those who love you,
You are in need of your own path, and your own answers;

I am slowly and surely realizing
That I must let my old friend go,
Holding our past season as sweet,
And not fully understanding the break…
Perhaps for me, you were something I was not to you;

Soon autumn will roll in with
Cool breezes and warm colors,
And I will pick up, and put together the pieces;

Goodbye my old friend
You have been gone for some time,
But I am just now letting go.