Dr Pepper Dreams, Jim Croce Memories

• I wrote this one in 2017, as I was processing the death of a childhood friend, my best friend for the years of Middle School, far from my best piece I know, but it was important for me to right this.
• I was in Middle School in the early 1990’s but Jim Croce was a musician we all loved in my family and still do. By the time I was born in 77 Jom Croce had been gone for several years, but his legacy lives on just as that of my friends does.

If I could save time
In a Bottle
And take a moment out
Ever so often
I’d be ten again
And you would be my best friend.
We’d laugh and cry together
Like little girls do
And fall asleep to Dr. Pepper
Fueled Dreams.

If I could dial 0 and ask
To talk to you just once more
I’d say sorry for the distance that Kept us apart,
And I’d Cherish the time we had together more.

If I could capture a Moment
And pull it out ever so often
It would be us piled into that
Old Toyota.

If I would have known that
Goodbye all those years ago
Would be goodbye forever
I would have held on to Friendship
A little stronger.

© Michelle R Kidwell,
July.05.2017