Magical, the way our lives danced like a fairytale spinning
Charmed amalgam of fantasy, dream, and highest hearts
My good fortune our life paths intersected as they did
When we were young enough, that golded dusted time
Our view of life an unspoiled reverie that must go on
Unaware how hard and skewed we’d stamp out as age
Brought us up and away to facts and figures, and adult decisions
Those serious side effects of how life makes us turn
We turned so serious I worried we’d lost your sense of humor
Your easy laughter, the glory I loved most in you back then
Yours the quickest wit I refused to believe you could have lost
That razor edge channeled in the serious direction of the work world
That sharpness given over to that darkly rational destiny
Our grown up pledge allegiance to, forsaking youth and light
Lanning Lee 