Hide And Go Seek Poem by Adam Collins

This is actually a song i wrote about losing my best friend to a drink driving accident. It's far from perfect but i cannot bring myself to change anything as this was my first serious attempt at writing and is very important to me.

Many years ago
Our feet in the sand
Mates forever
The unspoken plan

We used to sit at that spot
Whenever the chance
To talk things over
That no one else would understand

You knew me
And I knew you
Better than most
Our families too

When it was you and I against the world
We could run away
We’d hide in each other’s company
To escape from disarray

So I’ll play pretend
I don't want them to see
Hide and go seek
They’ll never find me

A few years ago
A gift the devil sent
An argument, the catalyst
Of my nightmares of infinite descent

Oh how oppressive
My actions seem in the course
Of sending you home
On the back of the pale horse

You didn’t take the poison
That caused your demise
It was swallowed by your killer
Whom should have paid the price

So I'll play pretend
I don't want them to see
Hide and go seek
They'll never find me

The guilt in my heart
The pain that I feel
I don’t care what they say
..Time doesn’t heal

I’m sorry, I’m sorry
But you can’t hear me
I swear if you could
Then I’d scream to the seas

To bring you back
For just one last day
I miss my best friend
What more can I say

So I’m writing you this letter
That will never reach your eyes
No one else wants to read it
For they like my disguise

So I play pretend
They don’t want to see
These feelings I’ll hide
Till this life sets me free