I would love to say our friendship is inherent. To say that our hearts beat to the same pulse, that we have the blood inside us in common, and that our words blend into each other perfectly seems like the right thing to say. However, I would be lying. I have to fight and beg my emotions to reveal themselves to you. Trying to write about us feels like drawing water from a frozen well. Miscommunications happen often and it's difficult to tell what you're thinking. But still, we are us anyways. The water in the lake we grew up around knows our lives well. If its pebbles and sand could speak, they would recite our every word back to us better than we could. The moon knows how much I care about you because I tell her often. She shines brightly at our stories. Even when I don't understand you, my mind pleads to. My hands write the words I can't tell you, and the world of poetry knows how desperate I am for you to know these things. My art glows with my expressions of you. It tells visual stories I have never spoken. We are not inherent. I have never been able to tell you exactly how much I care about you. I am terrified of confrontation and disagreements, so I don't always say exactly what I think. But I'll always try my hardest to show how I feel. You may never read these words, but I hope you somehow feel them anyways.