What Friendship Should Be

The nectar of humanity
Peeling back like a flower
Moments of absurdity
Residing in friendship’s power

Some blood is undiluted by water
Some water never sullied by blood
The complexity of disagreement
Demystifying the illusion of enlightenment

Cider ruminating on the past
And beer foretelling the future
Really the conversation should last
Until dreams are combined by suture

The accommodation of different music
Appreciation of another taste
Walking the mile a deux
When there’s only so far your legs can go

And why should Friendship get less than love
When from her shoulders, he launches his acrobatics
She's a firmer bottom line to have
The rest is purely semantics.

Minjiba Cookey © 2007