Friction

I've always wanted to understand friction
Where heat and callous meet
I've always felt
The blows pummel and pelt
What else?
Oh, to see my assailant

Yet i know what is not friction
At times
At times an open eye finds an open sigh
Releasing god from pressed shoulders

In life's kiss
At a time like this
Where the whirl waits
To let the clouds by
Fast as easy
But tempered
With fly

I've always understood friction
Just never why