Your loving presence beside me
fills my heart with gladness.
We sit sharing this moment together.
I prize you for the friendship you have offered.
and take great joy
in our growth together.
You have been my companion
in those times when there was no one.
You have filled the empty holes
and kept afloat my little ship.
I see in you a glimpse now and then
of your divine Mother who has given you
all the treasures that you are.
And I think,
I think if she had given
just one gift to her children,
I think she might have chosen above all others
the gift of having a friend.