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Sonnet on Friendship

If I should never see your face again,
If one of us is taken from this earth,
Through sick and sin, as tempers wax and wane,
The context is just what our friendship's worth.
Through centuries, through history's ebb and flow,
Past lives colliding, age old friends are we.
I knew you straight away this time, and so,
In future lives I know you'll know it's me.

We push and pull each other time on time,
It matters not what you won't give or take,
What you can't hear from me I'll say in rhyme, 
And reason being: truth does friendships make. 
Acquaintances are many, friends are few,
Like it or not, forever friends, we two. 


© Sara Nicola Ruth

Big up

Shirley Conran for “sick and sin” from her “feminist bonkbuster” Lace (1982). The French character in the book Maxine couldn’t pronounce the “th” in “thick and thin” so it came out as “sick and sin” which is way better.

From Shirley Conran’s Lace is a feminist bonkbuster (11 Jun 2012)

Most of all, in contrast to its modern-day equivalent, the bland Fifty Shades of Grey and its sado-masochism by numbers, Lace is exuberantly, fabulously over-the-top. Its heroines suffer no fools, take no prisoners and leave few bonkbuster cliches unused. Ultimately, after almost 700 pages of sex, sin and scandal the book ends by demonstrating that female friendship – sticking together through “Sick and Sin” as Maxine describes it – is more important than any man.

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