One Friend To Another

One friend to another

I like to talk to you.

I gotta say I need your magic

whenever I'm feeling blue.

The things that I admire

In the human heart.

I recognized in you,

I felt it from the start.

I notice things beyond the outside

more than life upon your shelf.

To me the eyes are windows

to the center of our self.

There's something deep inside them,

not the color or the size.

The spirit looks out from them,

the part I recognize.

The rest lives in the outside world,

all made of human parts.

The outside is what all can see,

inside beats the heart.

It's so tough to be ourselves,

to see beyond our scars.

So fortunate to have a friend,

to lift my eyes up to the stars.

The things that I admire

in the human heart.

I recognized in you,

I felt it from the start.

Copyright 1999, Dean Tinney