About the Author Donna M. Gray is a New Englander by birth and transplanted to Virginia 25 years ago. She married with children and grandchildren. She has been retired from the business world for four years. She is also a lung cancer survivor which led her on a mission to pursue a writing career. An avid writer since childhood, she has had several poems published in anthologies and has won awards in various contests. Sh has recently expanded her writing to include children.

Ask me to define a friend,
these terms would come to mind -
admiration, loyalty, humorous
and kind.
Friendships are a treasure,
and treasures are but few,
this definition is, my friend,
the way I think of you.