Friends Poem by Aaron Burr

What happened to our “circle of friends? ”
We are breaking connections, and forging new ones
Why must we break connections, to make new ones?
A few of us are left who manage to make new bonds
While desperately holding on to the friendships we know
There is something wrong with this picture
We should not be blowing each other off
We should not be pushing each other away
There is a way
To hold on to “old friends”
(Without them ever becoming old)
All of us need to learn how to make new connections
To the people around us without burning any bridges
For that is how we keep our connections
We must keep those bridges up
For bridges is the way to travel back across trepid waters