I absolutely love this poem about cherished friendship using the representation of our material and spiritual worlds:

“I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.”

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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