FRIENDSHIP

A real friend is one who walks in

when the rest of the world walks out.

..."Friends get scattered by the wind...

tossed upon the waves...

lost for years on end...

friends slowly drift apart...

they give away your heart...

maybe call you now and then.....

But you wanna be just friends..."

John Michael Montgomery

FRIENDSHIP

Each of us has a hidden place

Somewhere deep within ourselves;

A place where we go to get away.

To think things through,

To be alone, to be ourselves.

This unique place, where we confront our deepest feelings,

Becomes a storehouse of all our hopes

All our needs, all our dreams,

And even our unspoken fears.

But now and then, whether by chance or design,

And we allow that person to see, to feel and to share

All the reason all the uncertainty...

and all the emotion we've stored up there.

That person adds new perspective to our hidden realm,

Where a bit of himself will stay forever.

And that person we call a friend.

poem by Carol Elaine Faivre-Scott

When we count our "true" friends

we must not forget the animals....

for one of these gentle companions

may be the truest friend of all.

"Friends are the pillars on your porch.

Sometimes they hold you up....

sometimes they lean on you

and sometimes it's just enough to know

that they are standing by."

Real friends are those who,

even when you've made a fool of yourself,

don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Erwin T. Randall

THOSE FRIENDS

There are those who pass like ships in the night

Who meet for a moment,then sail out of sight

With never a backwards glance of regret

Folks we know briefly then quickly forget...

Then there are those friends who sail together

Through quiet waters and stormy weather

Helping each other through joy and through strife

And they are the kind that give meaning to life.