I'd Like to Be...

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you
have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that you've been
always glad to be;
I'd like to mean as much to you each
minute of the day
As you have meant, old friend of mine, to
me along the way.
I'd like to do the big things and the splendid
things for you,
To brush the gray from out your skies and
leave them only blue;
I'd like to say the kindly things that I so oft
have heard,
And feel that I could rouse your soul the
way that mine you've stirred.
I'd like to give you back the joy that you
have given me,
Yet that were wishing you a need I hope
will never be;
I'd like to make you feel as rich as I, who
travel on
Undaunted in the darkest hours with you to
lean upon.
I'm wishing at this time that I could but
repay
A portion of the gladness that you've
strewn along my way;
And could I have one wish, this only would
it be:
I'd like to be the sort of friend that you
have been to me.

~author unknown~

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