Ode to friendship
Have you by me
Not for today
When blood is hot
Sweat is raw
Flesh is tender
Have you by me
Not for today
When relations of
Blood, sweat, flesh
Are herded around me
Have you by me
For that days to come
When blood is thick
Sweat is rocky
Flesh is saggy
Have you by me today
For that day
When you send me away
Not bound by blood, sweat, flesh
But only by the warming glow
Of you and your love for me.
Girija P R
