Friendship is most important

I wrote this poem today after I got off the phone with my friend who is special because he has always been my friend. We have an undeniable friendship. He is an incredible guy with a soft spot for genuine girls. He has a great heart, but isn't quite sure how to let it show. Our conversation got me thinking that friendship should be shared, not just between two people, but with many others as well.. I don't think it's something that should be selfishly kept to oneself. I think it should be given away as carefully and generously as water from Mother Earth. This one is for you, Mattie:

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Sheyenne Manning

Being friends with you

is like returning to my

favorite holiday movie.

same story

same characters,

same scenes.

New again like your

voice smooth, still, past

the time that skins weather

and minds harden.

Like swirls of cold air

passing through my lungs,

you are my first breaths of the day.

Brand new.

Like a boy and

his old friend, we fetch

our enduring ways,

settle like pioneers

and sigh the sigh of old

trees braving their

last winters.

You’re a puzzle and

I’m that last piece,

recovered under a cushion

days, weeks, months

later are the nights we occupy phone

lines unrehearsed, we know them by

hearts unknown to us but akin to each

others misunderstand our minds marvelously

intertwined fingers, the object of dreams forgotten.

Icy land is our restraint,

none to you, your boundless ways.

I’ll return to you, your internal

brick edifice of which I see

but cannot feel.

Someday I’ll get lost,

wandering barefoot upon

the skin of the Earth and

I’ll find that home

with your name written on it.

I’ll curl up in the place with

my name and wait for your

return. I know you

always return.