A Once Beloved Friend

Don't write poetry very often but this one had some healing qualities to it.

A blade so sleek and silver

Cold as ice it made me shiver

Through my skin it made me quiver

As it finally reached my spine

 

A hollow screaming in the dark

As the blade it found my heart

Slowly tearing it apart

Yet I never saw this coming

 

A trust as deep as age

Turned the spotlight to the stage

For the world to see me rage

As a friendship was betrayed

 

A snicker in the whisper

Turn the blade until I whimper

For to you this is the simpler

Than to change your selfish ways

 

Now you think that I may hate you

Want to find you and berate you

Take a blood red brush and paint you

For the horror that you are

 

When what I truly want

Is to undo all you wrought

And forget I ever thought

You were worth calling a friend

 

For in a multitude of ways

In our youthful summer days

You proved to many a dismay

You could only care for one

 

Ignoring all the talk

Everyone telling me to walk

I stayed and told them off

By your side I remained

 

Now here I am with no more sadness

My life all the richer from your absence

Makes me wonder if your conscience

Let’s you sleep at night at all?

 

Well, of course it does

You were never one to pause

Upon whatever wrongs you caused

Where there’s a mirror to distract you