Do not postpone calling a friend or saying how you love a person
Dear Mila:
Thanks for giving valuable space in the MIF Website my piece "People Who Touch our Lives."
Being Valentine´s Day, allow me to share with you what Ms. Dahli Aspillera wrote in her column in Malaya newspaper today, 14 February 2007, the moral lesson of which is: " Do not postpone calling a friend or saying how you love a person."
Rudy
FRIENDSHIP – Excerpt from a column of Dahli Aspillera Malaya newspaper
14 February 2007
Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end,
Yet the days go by, weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone.
And I never see my old friend’s face,
For life is a swift, terrible race,
He knows I like him just as well,
As in the days when I rang his bell.
And he rang mine; we were younger then,
And now we are just tired old men.
Tired of playing a foolish game,
Tired of trying to make a name.
"Tomorrow" I say, "I will call on Jim,
Just to show that I’m thinking of him."
But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,
And distance between us grows and grows.
Around the corner, yet miles away,
"Here’s a telegram, Jim died today."
That’s what we get, deserve in the end.
Around the corner, a vanished friend.