“A friendship ended today”

 

“A friendship ended today”

A friendship ended today.

An old friend did I forsake.

The relationship died quiet.

I attended the wake.

Sad, it happened on this day

Of giving and receiving;

But I finally realised:

‘Twas me I was deceiving.

I am no saint or patron

To give in so, take all pain;

I have a heart that hurts

And cries against such disdain.

Perhaps I am wrong…perhaps…

Old friends are hard to find.

But I am done with insults!

So I paid back some, in kind.

Perhaps my heart’s growing hard,

Harder than it ought to be;

But, if friendship made it so,

Oh, what friends are these to me?

If, to heal a wounded heart,

We seek the company of friends,

Pray tell, to whom does one turn,

When friendship itself ends?

25th December, 2007