From SB: To Someone You've Drifted Away From.

It is funny that sometimes the people you grew up with are barely recognizable as teenagers or adults. You drift apart and pick up different lifestyles or life principles, and you are no longer as close as you were. Innocence is sometimes the glue that keeps friendships together, and as you lose that, you lose the friendship too. 

You & I,
Were two peas in a pod.
The misfits of religious classes through the years,
We didn't care that we were odd.

You & I,
Were two in many trios,
Of friends that changed schools & classes,
But they couldn't interrupt our flow.

Suddenly you,
Decided you were too good for me,
With your large inheritance & fancy new things,
Rising up to be alleged Queen Bee.

You,
Were too upscale now for mamaks,
No air-conditioning and greasy food,
You only want to hang at Starbucks.

I,
Tried to keep up for a while,
Thinking our friendship was worth the fight,
But the way you lived was not my lifestyle.

Suddenly I,
Got kicked to the curb for flashier friends,
Expats who were "too good" for this place,
Whom to your every will would bend.

You & I,
We haven't spoken for years now,
And there's a reason for that,
To be a real friend you don't know how.

You & I,
Are mere fragments of my childhood memory,
Locked in a time when we were so alike,
Never again like that to be.

- SB

11.14am, 22nd April 2016

Pantai Hillpark, Phase 2

SB is a conflicted soul of sorts, who is mad enough to go chase after what she really loves as opposed to conform to society and her mother's idea of a successful person. She prays she makes it in life, because she will not be able to tolerate the nagging that would follow if she doesn't. Her inspiration comes from everything around her, as well as made up situations in her head. Good luck distinguishing between the two.