Poem ~ Friendship

Friendship

My thoughts are yours,

And yours are mine in an 

endless back and forth

But perhaps the best part 

is that you have made me 

real

Everything I am and I love

Exists outside of me in you

And speaks back to me through you

So that as I interact with you,

I interact with myself

In the concrete world of the 

real

In which I long to 

be.

Only you could make me

real

in this way.

Before, I was 

lost 

in my thoughts.

But now those thoughts

have a place and a name 

in you

as we go 

back and forth

in the now of this moment.

How wondrous you are to me

How necessary you are

How I need you

To be fully alive

And to exist substantially

How unsurpassed is this reciprocity

Joy of joys

How I roamed the world over

Hungry for this

face to face

my friend.