Dear Friend,

“I have been careful as I have walked beside you.

I could only observe the slightest of your journey, to keep myself healthy and from falling into the spiral.

I could only say just so much, for worry you would resist and react – thereby plunging deeper.

So I tethered you to me by a few words here or there, to remind you that there was a window – an escape hatch full of air, ready and waiting for you.”