Dear
International Friendship Day on 30 July 2024
Bonds of kinship spill over my coffee cup,
sprawling, messy, soothing softness
Of the sound, through telephone wires,
Of your husky morning squawk,
Swallowing sleep,
Storytelling your half-remembered dreams.
This meme reminded me of you.
Text me when you get home.
Have you eaten today? Matcha doesn’t count.
It’s giving
Iconic.
Hero. Love of my life. Hyperbolic. Superlative.
We speak in overstatements
address our wounds in overdressed soliloquy.
I lean into you when I am alone
You hold me when I am struck by the bitter cold
Beneath the grey fog of December,
Yellow days in July,
With your memory, I roam.
Lockdown lochness led my psyche off the plank,
Shivering through cabin fever.
Your compass guided me through the raging abyss.
Sand castle visions of compassion
shouldered my return to shore.
Without you, I feel stateless,
Unmoored.
This stirring, joyous, storm of emotion
restores my faith in the unseen.
The source of all love places you in my heart,
You frequently occupy my thoughts,
fill me with gratitude, form a smile on my lips.
Hero. Love of my life. Bro. Bestie.
You absolute legend,
Dear friendship.