Friendship’s Domain

Friendship is no barter

And it has no charter

The bond is not a contract

But from it you never retract

It is not a venture

Rather an adventure

A perilous sea you need to cross

Where your ego must go for a toss

It belongs to those who are ready to gamble

For wager is its very preamble

The grand risk you must take

Your life must be put at stake

Out of the window when all doubt would go

Cool breeze of trust would come in a lavish flow

The palace is full of wonder

But it’s trove you cannot plunder

What a challenge it is to be a friend

The barrier of envy you need to transcend

If you try to pretend

It will soon come to a bitter end

Siblings are ordinary; marriage is profane

And all relationships just go in vain

Unless you arrive at that sweet plane

Which is called friendship’s domain

Laden with conditions, it’s not a pact

With divine mystery it is always stacked

In friendship life knows that celestial thrill

Where you can drink to your heart’s fill

It’s a journey where on each step you find a treasure

And joy you grab without a measure

In the company of friend you can drop all your armour

Life is then blissful and the bond so much warmer