Advice To A Friend

A   L   O   H   A !

 Any negative fear

Can be dissolved

By Gratitudes

Called to mind.

I don't know why;

It just

Works

Don't think of sad things

Don't Pull at loose strings,

Don't eat with those

Who tread on your toes.

While giving bouquets

Save yourself a rose.

Time

Can be a very sad thing

In very many ways:

Useful servant

Always teaching

'Nothing Stays.'

I have nothing to say

Then we get together.

Everything is interesting

And Stories pour forth;

My stories - which I had 

Forgotten.

You give me back myself

By calling it out to play.

You are 

That rarest of all

A True friend.

I hope you know already:

I appreciate You

Every day.

-[ / / / ]-

Thanks for sitting

under da tree with us!

               Warmly, cloudia