I need a friend

To share intimacies with
Not pleasantries
Or niceties
Or any “ees”
That shed their leaves
Or bark
Or wither and decay

I need a friend

Whose loyalties
Will not bend or sway
Or break
Or shift
Like a tectonic plate
To a more convenient place

I need a friend
A pressured coal
A diamond
Whose every facet
Sparkles with
A permanence
That endures