Tunnel

We went on a hike 

because I was music-ed out

walking in the cold all bundled up

jackets, borrowed gloves

sneakers

crunching through the icy wet

snow-steeped landscape

bare trees reaching to nothingness

a painted blue sky fading to early sunset

crunching through deep packed-down snowflakes

together

talking about everything and nothing and our lives

trusting

we reach our destination before it gets too cold

an icy tunnel

big cracked mossy stone

snow ice water river through and around

puddling at the end

clinging to trees to sneak around to be inside it

standing on the edge of stone

looking up at the domed ceiling

taking photos

magnificent

we head back because he's freezing

our cold-runner

I'm warm all the time so I was fine

we trekked back

cold sinking in my cheekbones

made it back

shared some laughs

some card games

some cocoa

some music

some videos

looked through a telescope at the moon

big white round cratered

bright

hanging in the dark sky

moonrise

this

                     is

                                       friendship

the kind of friendship I'd do over again forever

the kind of friendship that says

We're all different 

but we're all similar

you belong here

For the first time in a while

I wanted to stay.