Gift of Friendship

Friends who are not geographically near can feel the warmth of a whispered voice, "Hugs, always to keep you warm in the softness of rain." It's a refrain I hear within my heart when storms brew in the sky, wetting my eyes with tears, but chasing away my fear of feeling all alone. "I will miss the part of you I cannot see, and I will read the part of you that you've left behind." He is not blind to my minstrel musings of poetry for somehow he sees what I feel without explanation. It's not rare that my words are bared in verses for there's no other way I can express my thoughts, but for one to decipher without knowing me well... is worthy of being given a hug, always to keep him warm in the softness of rain or on a blustery Winter's day just to say, "I value our friendship."