When friends help the most, they silently pick up our tears and hold them for us.

This poem originally was published in Friendship Poems

A Tear Fell
I shed a tear today
Silently, I felt it fall
You caught it
shared it
held it
felt it
then
suddenly
it wasn't
so big
after all

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