Brown Eyed Big Sister

By Trevor Jordan Wells

My first best friend was a brown eyed little girl

Who showed me the way to live in this fun, new world.

She would take me by the hand and show me how to be,

How to walk, how to talk, how to sing, how to see.

I never had to go to my friend's house, she lived just down the hall

The things I learned from her, she'd always be there when I call.

She and I would go on expeditions in our minds, somewhere far away,

Trying to live like Peter Pan, never growing up, we would always fear the day.

But that day came and went, as we know all days do,

With bags all packed and goodbyes said, she went to USU.

She learned to love the college life, and I struggled to get through school,

We both loved and lost and cried and found that procrastination can be cruel.

She fell in love a time or two, and fell out just as fast

We gave each other life advice, and talked all about the past.

She came home for a few summers to check up on us all,

But that summer was never long enough, once I got my mission call.

We were excited I'd be serving the Lord, but I knew it would be rough,

To leave my brown eyed best friend home, with all my worldly stuff.

The day soon came when I had to depart, so we picked her up on the way

Her brown eyes filled with tears, and so did mine, but I'd be back one day!

The letters I get from her tell me to work harder still, and keep on pushing on,

Looking at it from the inside, my time is going, soon to be gone!

I know back home she's still a Utah driver, with Idaho in her veins

Her spiritual example has shown me how to hand God my life's reigns.

My best friend is my big sister, who's seen me through it all,

She's older than me in age, but I'll always be more tall.

She knows me inside and out, my loves and hates the same,

She's put up with me for 19 years, and still I call her names.

I'll never look to anyone the same way I look at her,

She is one of my biggest role models, my emotions she will stir.

I feel I never say it enough, but her smile is a work of art,

I love my brown eyed big sister, with all my blue eyed heart.