From Friends to Strangers

I thought we’d be best friends forever,

We used to talk for hours endlessly,

We did almost everything together,

Is all that just a distant memory?

 

We used to talk for hours endlessly,

We’d gossip, laugh and share our deepest secrets,

Is all that just a distant memory?

Now we hardly talk for more than a few minutes.

 

We’d gossip, laugh, and share our deepest secrets,

Now we’re like strangers, what happened, my friend?

Now we hardly talk for a few minutes,

Never did I imagine that this would all come to an end.

 

Now we’re like strangers, what happened, my friend?

We did almost everything together,

Never did I imagine that this would all come to an end;

I thought we’d be best friends forever.

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Poetry form: Pantoum

• 4-6 quatrains
• lines 2 and 4 of each stanza become lines 1 and 3 of the next stanza
• lines 1 and 3 of first stanza become lines 2 and 4 of last stanza, but reversed (3 becomes 2 and 1 becomes 4)
• rhyme scheme: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, etc.
• any syllable count