It is hard to say why, but I just needed a few days to cry. I needed some time to arrange my thoughts. However this I will say, I have found a truth in this outer glance and it came from friends like you. I wish to say to all of you whose poetry a rhyme I read along life’s way, a warm and gracious thank you. For it means so much to me, for everything you say and do. So, thank you my friends in this Den, for this poem is for YOU.

*Thanks to all and particularly L H

 

 Time they say, heals all wounds,

 but I say, its friends like YOU.

For sometimes, I travel a road of darkness,

where the light no longer shines its way through.

For my way is mired with the deluge of the past,

Yet still I slog along, I struggle and I gasp.

 

And just when,

 I am about to surrender it all and give in,

Enter now…YOU… my (friend)

For YOU come forth like a rising sun,

Giving warmth and comfort,

When there was none.

YOU smile and show me love and grace,

YOU say to me “I understand,”

And that no matter the trial I face,

That YOU whom I call friend,

Will help me once again

Help me once again….

To stand alone,

on dry land.

Where I

 shall in friendship’s strength,

Always and forever stand.

 

J. Allen Wilson © 2003