Though life has given you nothing at all, may you too have someone who loves like this— who will accept you exactly as you are, who will hold close with tender care all your laziness that leaves you scattered, who won't rush you to stay awake when you want to sleep, in whose embrace you can forget a world of sorrow and laugh, walking hand in hand with whom you'll feel this distance is the measure of the world, whose touch makes you feel most unburdened of all.
With whom sorrow melts away in dance and song and conversation, who finds heaven diving deep into the oceans of your eyes, who sleeps peacefully even on stormy days with you beside them— may you too have someone just like this.
When you sing off-key, when you cry with an ugly face, when you curl up in shame, when you gasp for breath in your longing for freedom, when false consolations one day shatter and crush you, right then someone comes to sit quietly beside you and says, Come, let's laugh and cry and sing together, Come, let's talk endlessly, push the sorrow away, Come, today let's write tear-washed poetry, Come, let's burn the past in coffee steam, Come, let's forget it all, make time itself our friend... May you have a friend like this right now!