I don’t remember how I met you It might have been at the pool You were the most amazing person I’d ever met I discovered jealousy because of you Sweet justice, the jealousy drove you away Introduction didn’t even start the understanding A lesson none the less I met a boy in line at my first concert He had strange hair and spoke loudly He wasn’t scared if people were watching him He introduced him self as an artist He was the first artist I’d ever met I respected him for being him self Later on I found he respected me for the same reason I never knew we had mutual respect During one of the first parties I tried to get you to do a shot I was drunk, you… didn’t speak English You were the most powerful person I’d ever met You were bigger than life, the life I was afraid of You were the one who taught me Jealousy pushes away the thing you want the most Plain and simple I tried to return the favor with a green card We learned together for three years You loved me the longest and I never understood why Fourteen years later we met again For a beautiful moment it was destiny In the end it was your jealousy that ended A tremendously tortured year I never liked you much as a person You were shallow and arrogant Your saving grace was your loneliness You were searching for yourself And I was there to talk to Through your search I found a little piece of myself You took a few pieces with you when you left But I found them much much later I had a love hate relationship with you Thirty-two years it lasted You spent most of it showing me who not to be How the choices you make become habit forming And one day friends and family might try to save your life It’s a lesson you might only get once He was a story teller Now the stories are about him And I will be the one who writes them I thought you were young and good You thought you were old and better I thought things would be better when you were older You thought I might grow up I’m constantly changing for better or worse Wiser still I grow Through it all I try and learn and teach Learn and teach