What is a friend?

What is a friend? Ill tell you

It is a person with whom you are to be

yourself –Your soul can go naked with him

He seems to ask you to put on nothing

Appreciating you for who you truthfully are

When you are with him, you do not have to be

on your guard .You can say what you think

So long as it is genuinely you

He understands the contradictions in your

nature which cause others to

misjudge you. With him you breathe freely….

You can profess your little vanities,

Envies and absurdities –and in opening

Them up to him, they are vanished

Onto the white ocean of his loyalty

He understands. You can weep with him,

laugh with him, pray with him

through it all, he sees, knows and loves you