You are...
My Friend,
my companion,
through good times and bad
my friend,
my buddy,
through happy and sad,
beside me you stand,
beside me you walk,
you're there to listen,
you're there to talk,
with happiness, with smiles,
with pain and tears,
I know you'll be there,
throughout the years!

(June 5,2008)

Leslie Briggs

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-friend-67/