It is probably unimaginative to suggest I could teach you of poetry--given I do have the credentials as a teacher--But poetry is not something that one can truly be taught, rather, it is something that is felt.

[ but... he nods. ]

I feel compulsed to carry it, strangely.
As if it is something I would be sore to be without. I have felt as such ever since you returned it to me.

I... remember from whence I got it, before it passed into your hands.

It was the first gift I had ever gotten from someone who I considered a 'friend'.