A HUG...
A hug...
can come to us so naturally...
a greeting after battle,
a gladness of the heart
the friend has lived, is sound,
not holding in its fond clasp
a trace of coming times.
A hug...
can be something in our mind
and, yet, so real
the arms of it reach quite around,
hug us back,
and we are satisfied
with their reality.
A hug...
can come unexpectedly
when news is heard
that lifts our hearts
and, so, our arms reach out,
embracing...both...
the bringer and the brought.
A hug...
can come with that full sense
of effort shared
and common goal
that makes us see our oneness
with those given to our lives,
joined in a moment's knowing.
A hug...
can come at the end of strife
when grief collapses anger
and we reach in comfort and in pain
in the softness of the night,
holding...lest we fall.
A hug...
can be a simple greeting
between friends just remet,
glad of heart to share again
the familiar presence of the other.
A hug...
is sometimes nothing more than the quiet clasp of hands
yet all the more for being only that...
not...only...that
but so much beyond,
a matter of the heart and soul.
A hug...
can be a last, firm grasp
when good-byes have come
and bid us take our leave
from those who are too hard to lose...
and yet we must.
A hug...
can lie quietly, only in our eyes,
in silent watching
as someone leaves our lives
and we can only follow
with our gaze.
A hug...
can have its forming all alone
as we sit and think,
locked into remembrances
of all that friendship means
and the sacrifice
the nature of that brings.
A hug...
between men in the midst of battle,
seeing the other yet alive,
a lion pausing in its hunt,
and with brief exchange of glance,
everything is said,
everything is known.
A hug...
given in true gladness
for the victory of the other,
spills over our stunned form,
washing it with joy
unrealized, perhaps,
until it comes as memory
and only then we know
how truly we are loved.
Jo Anzalone
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