What Are You to Me

"Do you imagine your sufferings will be less
because you loved goodness?  Truth?"

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
I am so glad
that we are friends
right now
and the foreseeable future

because I know we would make
terrible enemies,

the likes of which
end lives
in short order.
That's what you are to me.
I can only hope
I am as serious
sometimes
to you.