What is a friend? I will tell you. It's a person with whom you dare to be yourself.
Your soul can be naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to
be what you are. He does not want you to be better or worse. - When you are with
him, you feel as a prisoner feels that has just been declared innocent. You do not
have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, so long as it is genuinely
you. He understands those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge
you. With him you breathe freely. You can avow your little vanities and envies and
hates and vicious sparks, your meanness's and absurdities and, in opening them
up to him, they are lost, dissolved on the white ocean of his loyalty. He understands.
You do not have to be careful. You can abuse him, neglect him, tolerate him, Best
of all; you can keep still with him. It makes no matter. He likes you- He is like
fire that purges to the bone. ***He understands.- He understands.*** You can weep
with him, sin with him, laugh with him, pray with him; Through it all- and underneath-
he sees, knows, and Loves you. ***A friend? What is a friend? Just one, I repeat,
with whom you dare to be yourself.
~Dena Collins~
http://www.darkpoetry.com/node/work/86232
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