friendship

As I think about leaving for collage there is one thing that makes me want to stay more than anyother. That is the wonderful friendships that I have here at home. I have always had wonderful friendships but in this past year I can truly say that those friends grew to become my sisters and they are the main reason I dont want to leave home. I was reading over vacation and found these poems that struck me and reminded me of how wonderful my sisters are and how much I will miss them if i go. I love you my sisters!
Tiana
On Friendship
Is all the counsel that we two have shared,
The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent,
When we have shed the hasty-footed time
For parting us,- O and is all forgot?
All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?
We Herima, like two artificial gods,
Have with our needles created both one flower,
Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,
Both warbling of one song, both in one key,
As id our hands, our sides, voices, and minds,
Had been incorporate. So we grew together,
:Like a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet a union in partition,
Two lovely berries molded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;
Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,
Due but to one, and crowned with one crest,
We still have slept together,
Rose at an instant, learned , played, eat together;
And wheresoe'ev we went, like Juno's swans,
Still we went coupled and inseparable
~Shakespeare

To a Friend
I have examined and do find
Or all that favor me
There's none I grieve to leave behind
But only, only thee.
To part with thee I needs must die
Could parting sep'rate thee and I.
Our Changed and mingled souls are grown
To such acquaintance now,
That if each other so engrost
That each is in union lost.
And thus we can no absence know,
Nor shall we be confined;
Out active souls will daily go
To learn each others mind.
Nay should we never meet to sense,
Our souls would hold intelligence.
Thy larger soul in me shall lie,
An all thy thoughts reveal;
Then back again with mine shall fly,
And thence to me shall steal.
Thus still to one another tend,
Such is the sacred name of Friend.
~ Katherine Philips