Chosen Family

Family bonded by blood and friends are bonded by love.

Cut them at the vein and they return to the wound to nurse you back to health.

Find them and you find wealth.

No greater gift. No lesser rift can shift the true bond of a friend.

They chose to intertwine themselves to you. Invite themselves to your blue

Your joy. Your pain. At your cue a friend appears with the drift of a wind never giving up their post.

They are your chosen family bonded by love and chosen for lesser and for greater. For now and for later.

Years may pass till you see them face to face. But when the time comes laughter will fill what time left

As an empty space. New memories grace your time and grow deeper and taste sweeter than wine.

Oh the sublime feeling of a true friend.

Through a war or battle to which they may be the foe. They know when to fold and wrap you in a hold

Of food, gifts, words…they know.

They know you.

They know who they are to you and will remain steadfast to that definition throughout any shift in their

Earthly position they are a solid rock that will not weather in a storm.

They know.