Thank You to a Fellow Traveller

Who is he this child of a child my fellow traveller these six years What is he Music of laughter dancing eyes solemn thoughts move electrified by rhythms within You have shared perhaps too soon the burdens of a world older than your own Child of my childhood you alone in all the world trusted me through those dark and bitter hours when what little light I saw was mostly through your eyes one bond that did not crumble your streng th sustains me still