Friendship

Friendship

P K Routray

To a man, his kith and kin

his parental webs trap in.

Out of family bondage the relationship is born

to choose it or to change it man has power none.

But friends are man’s own creation

chosing one to mirror his self-reflection.

Creates man friendship with animal, bird and tree

even with river and rock man’s friendship we see.

Man can choose and change, it is his own decision.

But for relatives such option is not allowed by socity and religion.

A common human child since his early days

Tt woo his friendship at another child he gazes.

At tender age to play together with tear and laughter

to old age to share his loneliness and emotional torture.

man searches a friend as his companion to support

and at his difficult time to provide consolation and comfort.

Intimacy, true friendship, openness are unique in this relation

Man is free from childhood to deathbed to choose a friend of his own.