For Good

Below is a song from "Wicked," a song that's come crashing back into my consciousness. 

Rest in peace. 

"I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason, bringing something we must learn, and we are led to those who help us most to grow if we let them, and we help them in return. Well I don't know if I believe that's true, but I know I'm who I am today because I knew you. Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes a sun, like a stream that meets a bolder halfway through the wood, who can say if I've been changed for the better? Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.

It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime, so let me say before we part so much of me is made of what I learned from you. You'll be with me, like a hand print on my heart. And that whatever way our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend.

Like a ship blown from its mooring by a wind off the sea, like a seed dropped by a sky bird in a distant world, who can say if I've been changed for the better? But because I knew you, I have been changed for good.

And just to clear the air, I ask forgiveness for the things I've done you blame me for. But then I guess we know there's blame to share, and none of it seems to matter anymore.

Like a comet from orbit as it passes a sun, like a stream that meets a bolder halfway through the wood, who can say if I've been changed for the better?... I do believe I have been changed for the better.... And because I knew you, because I knew you, because I knew you, I have been changed for good."