About Dan Expertise Sometimes to help people you have to think like them. I am kind of one of the experts who thinks before answering. Don`t be afraid to ask questions.
If you can identify the title and author of the following poem, you are nothing short of a genius.
"I know that people come to change... we'll grow apart. We'll pass, with age... And so our friendship is a phase. But how I've loved these days."
I found an old, British high-school yearbook at a jumble sale and saw the words at the top of a page. I wrote them down exactly as they appeared, so that I could try to find where they came from. Hundreds of web searches, e-mails and blogs later, I'm not much further on. However, there was one "sighting".
On "allpoetry.com", a 14 year-old girl from Missouri, called "lowridersgurl" posted a poem in 2003, entitled "Cause We Are Friends". The lines, for which I'm looking, are contained in the poem but there have eben a few changes. "But how i've loved" becomes "I sure have loved", for instance. She wrote another poem, called "My First Love", in which one of the lines appeared.
The similarity between "my" lines and "lowridersgurl's" poem is so strong that mere coincidence can't explain it. I guess the most likely explanation is that both the high-school yearbook and "lowridersgurl" took the words from the same source. There is a chance that it's a song, rather than a poem. The "Missouri connection" suggests that it is American.
If you could help me identify that source, I should be very grateful. This has been a very long-running mystery.
Evie
Answer I did a lot of searches. It came up on a lot of question sites, than I noticed it was you asking who wrote it. No one on the other sites knew of who wrote it. Right now I am not having any luck finding out who wrote it. Try our book collecting area for help. Good luck and sorry
