I have found that a marriage based on love alone starts out on very shaky ground. Love is so volatile and yet so necessary. It's an emotion and emotions can become destructive. That's the nature of emotions. But when you marry a friend, who becomes your lover, somehow it seems more stable. I've had many lovers in my life who walked into and out of me, gone forever. But a friend? I have said some things to friends and after a while it was forgotten, and we were friends again. Some words, when said to a lover, are never forgotten or forgiven.

So I say Long Live Friendship in Love and Love in Friendship.

Your poem was so tender and I feel that it was glued together with friendship. May its bonds remain strong.