For Patti

Time spent as one
Kept us separated
Ideas of union
Seemed overrated
Two sides to a coin
Somehow left us jaded
Knowledge shared
Souls bared
Wounds healed
Viewpoints kneeled
Paths forked
Somehow friendship worked
You do for me now
What you didn’t know how
Past is past
And I know now
Compassion and understanding
Is the ground we are standing