A Friend

• Stephanie Verleg, Grade 10, St Thomas Aquinas College -
• Poetry
• 2020

Excellence Award in the 'The Inside Story 2020' competition

You know, yet you never heard.
You came, yet I never called.
You heard me, yet I never spoke.
You stay, yet I never asked.
You wipe the tears that are yet to come.
You listen, yet I say nothing.
I could not explain, and yet you understood.
You are silent, yet I know you're always there.
You heal me, yet I am not sick.
You lead me forward, yet we never move.
You didn't know,
You never asked,
And yet you understood
And that means everything.