Fortune Cookie

Usually the messages in these things are so random,it's hard to even try to believe that an entire 'fortune' is on this little slip of paper.Tonight though,that randomness proves false.In a Dark Chocolate cover fortune cookie on this little slip of paper read, 'Your friends are the cement in your life'.Maybe I'm tippin' too hard on a fortune cookie,but it's not the external that caused this warmth to move through me. It was those words.And they are exactly right!I mean I'm suspicious of everything,I trust nothing,I'm emotionally detached&too independent to even take someone's hand,even if I needed to.So many just saw the wall&went around.Not even trying to understand.But there were a select few who chose to climb to find what was behind the cold stone exterior.Thay found out why,why I cry when someone has gone too long without being seen,why opening up is bearing my soul,why poetry had to be my sanctuary when I was fed up with bullets&bruises&obituararies replacing my friends&family.Why I had to throw that bleach&ammonia in my mom's boyfriend's eyes.Why sometimes my nightmares are so real I can't sleep for days at a time.They built bridges,railways and a foundation.Reasons to be proud of being me,because they actually care&love me for me.All of me.The laughs,the awkward moments,the silences that will follow conversations because for some reason I'm always lost in thought.My gorilla glue!!!That's made to last,stuck like hair in the crack of an ass.Vulgar,maybe even gross,but admit those are the folicles that never wanna go.We something stronger,wax won't even remove.This is fortunate but it's more reality,a thought for my heart sweeter than the chocolate on the cookie that gave me this thought,this need to write.To show that they are something so solid in my life.