Found You Tonight

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I found you tonight. I thought I’d lost you forever, between the rain & the thunder that shook my world. But no, I found you tonight. Right where I had left you, you were, in the middle of the dismay & indifference. Right where I thought I shouldn’t look. But I found you tonight, and I dusted you, and I took out my reading glasses to study you. You were still the same; the same chapters I had read a hundred times, the same dog-eared stories, the same half-written epistles. I went through them all once again when I found you tonight. I cuddled up in bed, brought my knees up to my chest, and read you again, word for word. And with every word, I realized, your stories might be the same, but my understanding isn’t quite so. I see you even more beautifully now. With age comes grace, you know. And you have aged as beautifully as a flower blooming in the sun. I found you tonight, my old friend, and although you might feel lonely on the shelf that is my life, I will still find you every time I need a friend, just like I found you tonight.