Appreciation

Standing over six feet tall

Your eyes two specks

Your childish manner

Your sweet gaze

The way you always helped people

Your soothing voice

When you ran around teasing people

And brightened their days.

I steered clear of you

Your height was scary

I had never appreciated taller guys

But I appreciated you.

The time when you talked to me

When others were busy making fun

The time when you took the fall

For a mischief of another one

A courageous interior

Hid behind a soft smiling exterior

A will to help

A passion to flirt

Girls and affairs

Those critics

All that has changed now, huh?

I hear you have become serious

And smart. And studious

And aloof from "friends".

I wonder what that means

Was it the school?

The teachers, the "friends"?

But I don't know, I never knew

I'm just a silent observer

Standing at a distance

Appreciating you.