Existential Friend

By Marco Turbay (student of Psychology 5^th semester)

 

It is hot and I enjoy the moment the fan cools me,

I’m hungry and I enjoy the moment I know that soon

I’ll satiate the hunger, but I wonder

what would it be of food without hunger to satiate?

Or would it be the same of cold without a heater

to warm the air?

So we are beings going from here to there,

shaking hands and fighting,

loving each other, and leaving each other,

sharing shoulders to cry and keeping in company to laugh,

And do you know what?

It’s you and me, the fullest moment, as long as

we accept each other as we are,

because there, is where the wealth of our friendship lies.

I thank you for the moments together and also

for the ones you were not here,

Because if you had always been here,

a hypocrite, I would have as a friend

and I would have never felt you

and so I would have never written this letter to you,

my friend.