Occasional Scribbles

For being my friend as we grew up

For teasing me and tickling me till I couldn’t breathe and begged for mercy

For coming, eventually,  with brotherly bravery to rescue me from the spider on my floor

For sitting in companiable silence without the need to talk

For cycling miles to see me at school

For the way we knew each other so well

For playing Draughts with me and occasionally letting me win

For keeping my childish secrets

For putting your arm awkwardly across my shoulder to comfort me

For taking my side with unquestioning loyalty at the right times

For cheering me up when I was sad with gentle patience and a listening ear

For driving me so carefully on our first holiday together, ‘I’m not going too fast for you am I’?

For climbing mountains in the Lakes, falling into waterfalls, exhausted and hot

For laughing with me

For being so utterly dependable and there for me always

For the man you would have been, who I will never know

For your quiet dignity

For loving me

For sitting on the end of my bed after you died to comfort me – I know you were there

For everything you were to me and I to you

I love you, I miss you

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For us two

Wherever I am there’s always you,

There’s always you and me,

Whatever I do, you want to do,

‘Where are you going today’, says you,

‘Well that’s very odd ‘cos I was too’

‘Let’s go together’, says you, says you

‘Lets go together’, says you.