Longing To Befriend

How to love what is unknown

And for another’s heart to groan

So that you ache in every bone

With longing to befriend.

How to endear what’s never met

And care so much for one who yet

Could care less you exist. To fret

With longing to befriend.

How to pour out a soul of prayer

For that one’s heart which beats somewhere

With no feeling for all your care –

Your longing to befriend.

How to remain steadfast and true

To someone who knows naught of you

Who has no sight of what you do

With longing to befriend.

How to affix one’s weary eyes

Upon a star set in the skies

Ne’er to be reached. Your failing cries

That long to just befriend.

How to hold in this passionate

Heart and all unfortunate

Ways that part the soul of it

From longing to befriend.

How to give enough that you prove

The purity of your great love

So that the stars and sun would move

With longing to befriend.

How to hold on and love aright

Even as creatures of the night

Would blight your joy and snuff your light,

From longing to befriend.

How – ask I how? I need to know!

I need to hold and let him go!

I try and yet can only grow

With longing to befriend.