Connecting with others whom you feel you can trust

Is a game of chance, but ... invaluable, as we must

All have someone we can tell all our troubles to ...

For doing it very often lifts our hearts to lessen blue



And feeling comfortable with one person one can call friend

Is an impassioned objective which'll stay with us till the end

For having folks in your life who you feel you can trust well

Is something extremely comforting, but not an idea to sell



For folks tend to make their own judgments based on their view

Which can be colored from what they see, or have heard, too ...

And some may walk away, for those colors have multiple hues

So they leave you holding an empty tray - quivering in shoes

 

And you wonder whether it is you who have done things wrong

Or is it just that they hear a different tune - an alternative song

As you strain to hear the melody drifting on whisps of stale air

And stand there gawking, scratching head, and roughing hair



For the baring of the soul is such an extremely personal thing

And doing it must be something comfortable, to make bells ring

The trick is to hear the peal of them in the distance of your mind

And once you do - not another soul - should be able to make you blind



- Tristram



Christopher W. Thomas

10:08am Sun. March 15th, 1998