Friendship

© 2017 by P Michael Biggs

 It has been said …

“My friends are my estate.”

Then I am rich.

It’s a Wonderful Life reminds us …

“No man is a failure who has friends.”

Then I am a success.

If I have friends

Then I experience

one of life’s highest delights.

Are we still friends

Though we haven’t spoken

In a very long time?

I consider us so. 

Once friends … we remain.

Our memory of friendship

Is what binds us together.

Though I no longer call …

I still hold your place

In my heart

No one can ever replace you,

My friend.

A difficult thing …

To be a good friend

A loyal friend

A steady friend

A friend in season and out

Time and distance separate us

Busyness interrupts us,

Urgency diverts us,

But the tendrils of friendship

Still connect us

In magical mystical ways.

Let’s always be friends,

No matter the minutes

Or lack thereof

When we pause to connect.