To A Best Friend

I wish you'd take all of my wishes of happiness and safety and put them away in your head and your heart. Now that you're hurt and unhappy, and my wishes for you have been laid in stagnant water by your feet for a moment too long, I can only hope that you'll put everything anyone else wants for you aside, besides this: never give up hope that today you can show people who you are and be proud; today you can make someone smile; today you can be the person that someone else wants to model them self after; today you can change a life forever; today you can be the person that I know you are, the one that I've loved since the first day.