{"sf1_id":1419817,"sf2_id":"2140Jrd1","title":"The Essence of Truest Friendship","author":"The_Peoples_Vince_Offer","words":283,"posted_at":"2019-02-09T17:52:00.000Z","tags":["Friendship","Poetry","free verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1419817-the-essence-of-truest-friendship","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/2140Jrd1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/0d/0a/0d0ab94f-1f2d-4582-adf8-ba8c2c0e9fe4","description":"It's the 1-year of my friendship to  Mantrid_Brizon, and this is the gift I made for it. Here's to many more great years to come!!","content":"Who said that words defined the boundaries\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThat demarcated the stages of friendship?\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThat you're not a good friend\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nUntil it is said so?\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nYet, a friendship\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nOf which stage it is in is not said\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCan become close\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nNo matter how rhetorical the question\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nHow obvious the answer\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nIt was cathartic to think about it\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nLike trying to find a hidden sagacity\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThat was not there\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nBut the thing about our friendship is,\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nIs that it has been only a short while now\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nBut it felt far more than that\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAs if we knew each other for aeons\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAs if we did brave all the wars of mankind together\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd seen the dawn of existence as one\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nSo that we can be so inseparable now\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAh yes, we can agree\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThat a friend\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nOf which I will go to the ends of the earth for\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nIs a truest of true friends\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd very few so thus I would do it for\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd very few I would die for\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nFor no greater love is it indeed\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nTo give up your life for those you care so much for\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd so thus I'll let you know\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAlthough you already do know\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd I know that you know\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThat there are few in my life\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI'd do all that aforementioned things for\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThat there are few in my life that I will move heaven and earth for\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd of those few, you are most joyfully blessed to be one of them\n\n\u0026nbsp;"}