The Love of a Friend

The love of a friend
Will cover a body
Of its nakedness
Giving a stripped fellow
Protection and
Adorning vesture

And the love of a friend
Will save a face
From dire shame
Making an ugly fellow
Beautiful and 
Altogether lovely

To the world
And to himself.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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