A job and a friend

That's what the leaders recommend

To keep a newcomer from slipping away

Let them both be depended and depend

That brings more than all doctors can say

I believe in love from first conversation

Progressing to philosophical elucidation

In our case, I think it stared with worms

A rather lowly sort of revelation

Your green eyes gazed back, alive and firm

You hid a lot from me that year

Though I knew you lived in self-made fear

Which turned out to be another similarity

We found later, after you gave me my career

An ocean's distance did not create disparity

I call you Caitlin, Aurora, and Jack

Names you gave yourself after I came back

Who am I to talk? I manufactured Raven

We came to the same place by different tracks

Hiding behind pseudonyms is not craven

When I'm in trouble, I phone you

Only you understand, you're alone too

More than most people are, in any case

Sometimes I live only for God and you

For me, please make it to this place...

...Where I am, I'm waiting by the door

With others in my heart; you at the core