Me My Friend and I

We always move together

Me, my friend and I

And should one try to separate us

We would surely die.

Me, my friend and I

You’ll never see one alone

We keep each other’s company

At school, at church, at home.

Some people call us triplets

Identical ones at that,

Some may call us a threesome

Always together, that’s a fact.

We’re like spirit soul and body

Or water, ice and vapour

And to interfere with either one

Is to declare all out war.

We represent one another

Always, as a matter of fact,

And it’s not just words I’m using,

We have one another’s back.

Yes, we look out for one another

The way good friends do,

And whatever one of us gets

The other gets it too.

From birth we’ve been together

Me, my friend and I,

And as friends we’ve decided

That together we will die.

If one should leave the others

Neither would survive,

Albeit separation is impossible,

We’ve all got the same drive.

We are really one, you see,

Me, my friend and I,

And if you feel to intervene

Don’t you ever dare try!

Even that you cannot do

No matter how hard you try,

No way you can come between us

Me, my friend and I.

We sometimes have disputes

When to ourselves we talk

But at the end of any discussion

We always together walk.

We’ve been through life together

We’d have it no other way,

And one thing that’s worked for us

Each one has equal say.

At the end of each discussion

Agreement is the outcome,

It’s one for three and three for one

After the talk is done.

We are like the blessed Trinity

Me, my friend and I

But one major difference is

One of these days we will die.

That’s our story my friend

Me, my friend and I,

And I dare say it’s also yours

Just take a look inside.

Stewart Russell (c) March 2019