It can be one of the easiest or hardest

relationships to maintain

 

Some will always be there

as you are for them

 

But others will pause and remove themselves

expecting understanding

 

These are the hard ones

bonded, yet strained

 

I have been on both sides

the reaching and the withdrawing

 

I have been rewarded with forgiveness

that I sometimes find hard to give

 

But as we ebb and flow into each other’s lives

the rhythm finds a way

 

And soon we are around a table laughing

as if no time or space has passed at all