Prompts day 21 TSL April 21, Prayer, Friendship (Given by Satbir Chadha)

Prayer is silence
God is Silence

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Friendship

I wandered through the desert, the hot sand burning my feet, in search of a friend.

I wandered through a garden full of the fragrance of roses and jasmine in search of a friend.

I wandered through a world of hail, snow and blinding winds in search of a friend.

The dust cut into my brown skin and red blood came out in drops in my search for a friend.

I flew far beyond the seven hills and four directions even to the skies, the yellow moon, the white sun, and the silver stars, in my search for a friend

I crossed the Himalayas and the Ganges and went far beyond all the blue oceans in my search for a friend.

I looked inside caves, I looked inside caverns, I looked into tunnels and gorges of darkness in search of a friend.
I have been to the poles and seen ice stalactites and stalagmites in my search for a friend.

I fell in love in search of a friend and fell out of love in search of a friend, thinking that friendship was the softness of touch, of taste, of fragrance, of kisses, of embracing hands.

I climbed mountains and crossed valleys, I walked plains and I went past villages, towns, and cities in my search for a genuine friend.

The ivy hung over the fence, the wisteria climbed the walls, time went by like life and death came closer while I still found no friend. I was no closer to finding a real, true friend.

Till one day I realized I would never find a friend, the only friend of the friendless is God and he teaches me to be the friend, everyone's friend, and never to look for any friend.