If you are a good friend
to yourself always,
you will never be lonely.
Shilashanti
He thought he was abandoned by his friend,
while his friend felt abandoned by him too.
Thus did they unwittingly estrange from each other,
with misperceptions clung to unclarified.
To the second friend,
the first was his best friend,
but the first thought the second
saw him as just another friend.
Realising the above decades later,
only then did they know
of the empty grudges held,
and the actual affection missed.
How many of our relationships
are likewise left withering now,
to have natural ‘deaths’,
by assumption without communication?
If we are good friends
with one another always,
none will ever be lonely.Shilashanti
