It's like a dream to revive this and find you have returned. Those days seem so recent, even if in truth, they all passed by long ago. I can still recall the first time I saw you; I was studying music, you were studying painting with a keen interest in art history -- there was no telling that this would spawn so close a bond that it did.
You were so fragile, like a newborn bird, and I was confused and young and full of unsuppressible ambition. You were close with everyone but Nick -- to tell you the truth, you were the only one I was truly close to, and this fact would become all too apparant each time my services weren't needed (each time a new dream was sought.)
My own dream was realised when I joined with my wife, in the form of a bouncing baby Benjamin, full of baby fat and huge happy grins. My own dream was realised in a variety of ways. We've all grown, but now you're back and we have to turn to you.
How many nights did we laze on a grassy knoll, joints in our hands and dreams forming with each smokey exhalation? How many fantasies did we share in the midnight hour before heading off to some insane pursuit? How many secrets did I confide in you?
We were the closest friends, but Waters still managed to tear us apart, and whatever damage he did not inflict Gilmour completed when he claimed the spot on your solo albums rather than me.
I'm glad that you've returned, Syd, and I hope you find some time for an old friend. I think about you every day, I have since I last saw you when you were truly you (at some anonymous party it was, The Who and the Beatles were still there, Dylan perhaps, too, I can't remember all that well...) and we parted ways for good.
Please find some time for me.
I'd like nothing more than to hear your voice and see that mischevious twinkle in the corner of your eye.
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