Ode To Sam

Pain

I am the only son. The only boy in the family.

Don't have that many friends but many acquaintances though.

There's this one bloke whom I've known for decades. He is all -- an acquaintance, a friend, a buddy, a brother and a pain in the ass.

That's how special he is.

We disagreed on many many things and we agreed on many too, you know like that wine, women and song stuff(?)

In a relationship its great to hate the same things ;) If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.

We have a common enemy and we fought many battles together.

Some things needed saying. He's (too) generous and tend to go against the book. BTW and for the record, we've fed the needy in the early morning hours.

Let me tell you, he's done his job.

Now he is diagnosed with that bloody capital C thingy and the ungodly medicine men gave him a couple of months to remain on the plane(t)?

I ran to see him. We hugged and tears rolled down my cheeks (and his too).

It was kinda sad but it was a GREAT DAY. It was.

I made a date to have a cuppa of pulled-tea with him for the Thirteenth September 2022. Told his son to put it down on the diary.

Hey... we, you and I decide the what and when of our lives.

Kapish?

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