“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”

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I've learned

That there are times

You are going to snap

And bite at me

But that doesn't mean

You don't care

And that you are not perfect

But God knows neither am I

Still I know this friendship is meant to be

And when it comes down to it

You are going to be

That friend I can talk to

About the silly

And serious.

I've learned

That others look

At you differently

Because they don't see

The true you

But I do

And its the one

Who tells someone

You hurt her

You are going to go through me.

I've learned there are times

I just need to back away

And fade quietly into the background

And times when I need to be

The friend you lean on

And you need to be the friend

I lean on to.

Copyright Michelle R Kidwell

Jan.22.2011

1:49 P.M PST