Friends Are Where One Offloads What

March 22, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is friendship.

Today’s poem is about what friends are for.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Friends are where one offloads what

One cannot bear alone --

Spoiled goods that jam the gut,

Sorrows turned to stone.

Why does the act of telling friends

One's troubles ease one's pain?

Nothing changes, nothing ends,

Yet one can cope again.

It's not that one is looking for

Advice or sympathy.

One has pent-up words to pour

Into reality.

A friend is like a field on which

Such feelings can find air.

The point is not to say too much,

But simply to be there.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/frien3.html. For more friendship poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/friendshippoems.html .

This week’s theme: Friendship

March 19: Courtney

March 20: For Most of Us Life Passes like a Dream

March 21: Forgive Me if I Come into Your Bed

March 22: Friends Are Where One Offloads What