You’ll always Be My Friend (You Know Too Much!)

 

We are Alcoholics Anonymous without substance abuse.

A support group where no topic is taboo.

What goes on tour, stays on tour.

 

We step through a kaleidoscope of pain

from tender wounds of unrequited love

to brutal annihilation of innocence.

 

No stone is left unturned.

 

Emotions and insecurities are scrutinised

until the demon is exorcised, spilling it’s poison onto paper,

verbalising injustice to relative strangers.

 

“Relative strangers” – strangers who at once become family.

We lay our souls bare, submit our greatest vulnerabilities,

our fears, our desperate longings

 

all the while revering the turn of phrase, applauding success

in discovering the perfect word to communicate

the essence of suffering or exhilaration.

 

We find joy in the art and musicality of words

which encapsulate the heart of sorrow.