* WHAT A FRIEND IS *

Each of us has a hidden place

Somewhere deep within ourselves;

A place where we go to get away,

To think things through,

To be alone, to be ourselves.

This unique place, where we confront our deepest feelings,

Becomes a storehouse of all our hopes,

All of our needs, all of our dreams,

And even our unspoken fears.

It encompasses the essence of who we are

And what we want to be.

But now and then, whether by chance or by design,

Someone discovers a way into that place we thought was ours alone

And we allow that person to see, to feel and to share

All the reason, all of the uncertainty

And all of the emotion we've stored up there.

That person adds new perspective to our hidden realm,

Then quitly settles down in their own corner of our special place,

Where a bit of themselves will stay forever,

And we call that person a friend................