First of all...I have about three blogs I've started and have yet to post as I haven't yet quite found a good way to finish any of them. I'm sure they'll come. I miss my old writing stomping grounds and the freedom to allow words to be a creative outlet...
That being said, the words which follow aren't new ones. In sorting through desk drawers and boxes and piles of things that have long since needed a home, I mostly threw away a lot of unnecessary items. But I also found a few treasures. Like the remnants of a notebook...about 10 pages left in it...all filled-in and scribbled on. The back cover page faced me after flipping through a page or two and I read the words "Bored to tears! Can't wait to sleep...in Chapel. Wow, I'm a terrible person. Welcome to the end of senior year!" I was about to toss it while chiding myself for saving something so useless when the front cover faced me instead and I discovered it was filled with not just scribbles and scrawls and terrible but true admittances about my perspectives on chapel...but words. There were two poems and the poem/story that follows. I know the two poems have since found homes typed and saved (Sound and Fury even posted on me 'ol blog). But I couldn't even find a file for "Friend for the Day".
I remember when I wrote "Friend for the Day"...but I don't remember why. If it was just Anika trying to account for her boredom in chapel with a speaker who had said the same thing every year since she was a freshman or if there was actual inspiration. I do remember compiling it and thinking if I could find the right illustrator it would make a very cute and even enjoyable children's book...with each stanza taking on its own page. Probably if you made it through my lengthy "brief" introduction...read it with that tone in mind. It makes it more fun. It was fun to find today none-the-less. After all, who doesn't need a friend for the way?
Friend for the Day
Friend for the day!
Friend for the day!
For just twenty-seven dollars I’ll be your friend for the
day!
If you want we can talk;
If you want we can play...
For just twenty-seven dollars I’ll be your friend for the
day!
Friend for the day!
Friend for the day!
For just twenty-two dollars I’ll be your friend for the day!
We can climb in a tree;
We could build a fort in the hay...
For just twenty-two dollars I’ll be your friend for the day!
Friend for the day!
Friend for the day!
For just eighteen dollars I’ll be your for friend for the
day!
We could fish in the harbor;
We could swim in the bay...
For just eighteen dollars I’ll be your friend for the day!
Friend for the day!
Friend for the day!
For just thirteen dollars I’ll be your friend for the day!
We can count a billion stars;
We can guess how much the earth weighs...
For just thirteen dollars I’ll be your friend for the
day!
Friend for the day!
Friend for the day!
For only nine dollars I’ll be your friend for the day!
We could color 1000 pictures...
And then put our art show on display!
For only nine dollars I’ll be your friend for the day!
Friend for the day!
Friend for the day?
For only four dollars I’ll be your friend for the day!
We could put milk out for the cats
And collect all the strays?
For only four dollars I’ll be your friend for the day!
Friend for the day!
Friend for the day?
For just one whole dollar I’ll be your friend for the day!
We could shout, we could swing;
We could dance, we could sway...
For just one whole dollar I’ll be your friend for the day.
Friend for the day...
Friend for the day?
For just twenty-five cents I’ll be your friend for the day.
We could play in the mud!
A pig could pull our sleigh!
For just only twenty-five cents I’ll be your friend for the
day.
Friend for the day?
Friend for the day?
Even for free I’d be your friend for the day...
If you want I can just go...
But if you want...I would stay!
Because even for free I’d be your friend for the day...
*~*~*
“Friend for the day?”
“Friend for the day?”
Did I hear someone calling:
“Friend for the day!”?
Please say you’re here...
That you didn’t go away...
I could really use a friend for the day!
Excuse me, I’m sorry...
But are you okay?
Were you the one calling:
“Friend for the day!”
I’m new in town...
And I’d just thought I’d say...
If you’re offering, I really could use a friend today...
Friend for the day!
Friend for the day!
It was me!
I was calling “friend for the day!”!
We can fish, we can swim!
We can climb, we can play!
We can jump, we can sing!
We can collect all the strays!
We can guess, we can dance!
We can put our art on display!
I can show you around...
We can talk and we can hang...
I really just want a friend today...
*~*~*
Friend for the day!
Friend for the day!
Everyone needs a friend for the way.
Someone with whom to talk,
Someone with whom to play.
Who needs you to be their friend today?
