For My Friends

To the friends who understand me.
To the friends who don’t quite understand me but like me anyway.
To the friends who tell me it’s all going to work out fine.

To the friends who tell me I’m not nuts.
To the friends who tell me I AM nuts but that being nuts is perfectly okay.

To the friends I see all the time.
To the friends I don’t see very often but email all the time.
To the friends I don’t email very often, but who reply when I do.

To the friends I met 20 years ago and have only recently begun to know.
To the friends I met more recently and have been able to get to know better.

To the friends who are there when I need them.
And to the friends who let me be there for them when they need me.

From the bottom of my sometimes open, though often closed heart.
Thank you.