Made to say Goodbye

I lost a very good friend today, well not lost, but I feel lost without them. They graduated from college here in MN and had a hard time finding full time work, so they had to go home to regroup and look into some opportunities through connections in their hometown. So, we had to say goodbye for now, and that is very hard. I am sure many individuals can feel me when it comes to saying goodbye to a loved one, close friend, significant other, even for a time, is very hard on the heart. To go from growing, struggling, and starving to survive together, to phone calls throughout the day, just isn't the same. The years we spent together learning, living and loving, seemed to be begin and end in the blink of an eye. They are now prisoners of the great "Greyhound bus" experience. Where they don't check your bags and people ride to get away with horrible things without the customs to deal with to travel. Others, simply have to take it, for airfare prices are not an option. I remember riding it for three days to go from MN to VA to visit my boyfriends parents and friends of which he escaped from. It was more than an experience and to deem it an "adventure" would be too kind. All kinds of people, from all walks of life, trying to get to their destinations, stuffed on a bus they always fill too full. Its hard to not listen into all the conversations going on around you and behind you, as you lay there trying to pretend to sleep to keep from going crazy on some of these ignorant souls. A random guy in the back announces how he just got out of the "big house", and from then on, one person stays awake at all times. A crackhead also tried to board a full bus mind you, and grab a seat undercover without a ticket, and the bus driver called her out and she took off running. As she speeds away, I read the writing on the back of her shirt, which reads: "real nigga"...I know my friend will be safe and get home just fine, but I will pray for her just the same, because people, today, are Nuts!