Found something written for me by a very dear friend ... on 26-May-2000… and it’s really worth sharing…
Sunshine and Shadows/ Our friendship and our Ego
She says we never fight…
But could we ever…fight?
O Yes, we could…But we can’t…
For the price is too high.. or is it?
… and what would we fight about?
We understand each other so totally
She says we are the closest to being one…
Yes… so close… and yet… we never fight
For we have paid the price for closeness
And set ourselves far apart… no… not ourselves, not our heart, not our minds,
But that one thing that subtly threatens to tear us apart
- never obvious… but always there – like our shadow in the sunshine.
We seek the sunshine of laughter
And the moonshine contentment
So secure…yet the shadow remains.
Perhaps it is good… No, it IS good…
Let the shadow remain…for without them,
What proof do I have that we live? ... that there is sunshine and moonshine?...
Not just to heat us…but to shine upon us
…and to cast out that dark forbidden thing
…upon the floor… where it belongs… and NOT in our heart… and our minds
…Its talons ready to shred the precious fabric of our love.
…and so we dance…like skaters on thin ice…
Swooping each other in graceful circles
Our hearts filled with a fire warmer than love…that of trust…
On lookers say we can’t afford to miss a step…or step too hard…
The ice will break…but I know we won’t… miss a step… or a heartbeat…and so we dance…
I grow reckless…we swirl faster…does she too…yes, she does…
The ice creaks ecstatically…the cold water claws its way up our legs, our hearts, our neck, our lips…but I still have her hand in mine… and our eyes still glow warm…
We will get through this too… we will…
All our sunshine memories will warm us and all the moonshine shall cool the water into ice… and we shall dance again…
A much more tender, yet surer dance.
And when sunshine comes, we shall run after the colorful dreams of spring …TOGETHER…
