The Gift Of Friendship
Is a rare gem
Better a friend in the dark phases
Than walking alone in the long night seasons
Better a body of warm companionship
Than the blistering unforgiving cold of long lonely winters
Better an assisting hand to help
Than the lonesome tedium of going it alone
Better the assurance of one name on speed dial
Than many uncertain to come
Better an open door at any time of night or day
To talk, to cry, to scream, and decompress
A listening ear
To unburden the heart and clear the mind
Hear soothing words and the voice of reason to calm and ease
Better to have one to punch you with hard truth
Than many to caress with comforting lies and vain assurances
Better to have the one to walk with through the dark phases of life’s seasons
Easing the thoughts of terror and foreboding accompanying the long night ahead
Better to walk the dark alley with a friend than into the dark night alone and afraid
© Faminu Imabong, 2021
Many thanks to Ravyne Hawke for this quote prompt 'I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the night'
