thankyou.

One of my best friends is in China. I hope he is having a lovely lovely time but I also kind of miss him being a bit closer than the other side of the world. The thing I am most grateful for with this friend is that he is like a brother I never had, but more than that, he is someone who is emotionally safe to be around. There are lots of ways that I could potentially say thankyou for so many things, but the only way I know how to say thankyou with ALL my heart is with words, so this is my thankyou to someone I respect and am glad to have the input from.

Dear friend
we've shared in hindsight many insights
born of pain and falls
bruised knees, scratched hearts
lack of wisdom
we've shared some feelings
loss of innocence, sense of bearing
lost our hearing, lost our hearts
i've bared my heart

cracked it open, spread it wide
with its imperfections and its many lies
spread it on a blank white screen with honesty much like
spreading runny jam with a butter knife
waited for you to cut with words to judge to make me bleed
open 'tween teenage angst and growing pains
warmer moments and grown up heartaches

but you opened your heart and
in the warm November rain the cold winds racked my heart
and with arms metaphorically open you stood
unassuming and undemanding
warm in new simplicity and Christ-like mercy
and in return

shared your wisdom with me
in equal honesty and true modesty
clear minds, clear eyes
i form the grammatical structure to bring a thing more logic
but inbetween perfect sentences that mean less
we synchronizate harmonies of common language
our hearts having always
spoken the same sort of tongue

---For your kindness, thankyou. For your willingness to listen to me, thankyou. For being gracious, thankyou. But most of all, for being the kind of friend that can be trusted, from the bottom of my heart without agenda or desire for response: thankyou.