We are friends because when I feel responsible for the whole world you murmur a supportive line but your eyebrows tell me to tone down the savior complex.

We are friends because when I feed you a line you give it back to me in a different flavor.

We are friends because we both laugh at the joke but for different reasons. We are friends because we fought the same battle and only parts of us survived and together we almost make a whole person.

We are friends because when we stand side by side and scream we do not hear the same echo bouncing back from the void.

We are friends because we walk along trading heavy buckets of water and neither one of us empties anything out but we both feel better.

We are friends because we have compared the wounds of our rage and found some small measure of solace.

We are friends because you want to burn the world but never do and I want to lay everyone down for a nap but I keep setting things on fire.

We are friends because when I put up walls you tunnel through them. We are friends because when you hide away I creep in next to you.