wrapped up on green fields and blue skies, cotton couldn't keep us warm through the wintertime, laughter kept us active, barefoot on hard tracks, our lives were consumed by three-minute-rhymes, our hearts all melted for the same person, her name was carolyn, on the brink of adulthood, we laugh until we are drowning in tears just thinking about those times, blonde days, puppy love, wintertime sunshine, the closest of friends, the lack of similar bloodstreams and the difference in our skin tones will not change the brotherhood that will last for the rest of our lives