The first day I met you we were in fourth grade.
The first day of school and we were quite afraid.
So on that bus ride, with no one I knew,
I'd hoped that I'd make one friend or two.

It took me a while (we had different classes)
To separate you from the typical masses.
We found in each other the spirit of kin,
We could be sisters. No, scratch that, we're twins!

There was a black spot in our second year.
A month that, when thought of, my eyes they will tear.
A time when I thought that I had been replaced.
The scars of that time left me sad and disgraced.

But now, four years later, we're still BFFS.
We've grown through the changes,
we've passed all the tests.
You know all my secrets, my worries, my fears.
We've gone through the trials that come with the years.

My mirror self, my soul's only sister,
But although we shout when opinions will differ,
You take all the words straight out of my mind
And I always return the favor in kind.

You make me feel safe to just say what I feel,
What's on my mind, all the flaws I conceal.
Thank you so much for just who you are.
*From inside the gutter you show me the stars.

*Reference to Oscar Wilde's quote, "we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.