Friendship

Butterfly Division

Friendship is the quiet kind of love
no grand declarations,
no trembling confessions,
just a steady presence
that lingers like warmth in a room
long after the fire is gone.

It is the hand that doesn’t ask to be held
but is always there when you reach.
The laughter that stitches together
the torn edges of an ordinary day.

It does not arrive with thunder
or leave with a storm.
It grows—
in shared glances, inside jokes,
in silence that never feels empty.

While other loves burn bright and loud,
friendship hums—soft, constant,
like a heartbeat you forget to notice
until you realize
it’s been keeping you alive all along.