Seasons

Friendships come and go

Changing as the seasons change

Trying to hold onto them 

By a single thread

Stuck with scissors in hand

Some choices in the other

How can I

Make you smile

Maybe I just never learned to fly

With these black tattered wings

I was not able to keep up with you

Those brilliant white wings

I still have what I love most

A pearl almost as broken

As I was

Maybe even less so

Though I still find myself

Waking up every morning

Looking at those scissors for an excuse

To cut my own again

Author's Note

Friendships are hard to keep even if you want them.

Reviews

[dan]

Friendship, as wall as love, is always a tenuous tightrope to navigate. Balancing feeling and the desire to please while attempting to draw from it things on your own schematic of a life plan. Love should have a more solid framework, with forgiveness and second chances being as abundant as the love is strong. But friendships are way easier to break. Less spiritual attachment, less to wait for at the baggage claim carousel. I'm not saying it shouldn't or doesn't hurt, but the healing period is helped along with other attachments to other friends. Tough for a bit, then you tear the scab off cleanly. Well written Riv. take care...dan

[Dani The Unreviewed]

Sometimes it's hard to... But usually you just gotta dance the right way. You gotta know when to say yes, and when to say no. Sometimes, you don't have a choice. As for cutting...been there... Don't keep doin that, it is REALLY REALLY dangerous! and most people will judge you for doing that. They did f**k around with me for a time... And yeah, i know... Once you decide to stop, then somethin happens that throws you back, right into the chains of depression, then it is really really tempting...and before you know it, you're down there again. Problem with people is, that they don't get it. No matter how many times they say they understand, until they go through that, they just don't know. The other problem with people is, that when they see you need help, it is easier to just ignore you, or even judge you for it. It's like when a car hits another, and before anyone would help the drivers who got hurt, they would be yelling at them instead of helping. Some even like it when you're down. Why? i don't know. As for friends leaving you because you cut... Then i hate to say it, but i have to...if they do that, then they're no friends. Second, if friends wont consider you as a friend any more... That is really no reason to start cutting. Stay strong.

[Riv]

Thanks for the read ^^

[Dani The Unreviewed]

No problem.

[Coyote Poetry]

Honest and direct words and thoughts. Easy to fall into bad places. Harder to stay strong and go forward. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[Willard Wells]

In words with you before I feel this was part of your past which had and still has some great pain. Well written reflection on dealing with life on the edge. Thanks,

[Robert]

Some friends come and go in everyone's life, don't get too hung up on that. Just remember right around the corner you will find other friends and maybe if you are truly lucky a best friend.

Riv, read this poem I wrote a while ago.

http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/Thoughtofthen/1516404/

[andrew mitchell]

How friendships change with time nothing is permanent! or lasting as life is so about oneself

[AaronFreitas]

"Maybe I just never learned to fly
With these black tattered wings
I was not able to keep up with you
Those brilliant white wings"
Friends do come and go... love the honesty. Love that stanza :)

[Perkele.7885]

A true friendship requires few things. A basic love in the first place! then: and these two factors are required of the both of you 1( flexibility and 2( adaptability Friendships, if they are true friendships will be needed over time and they will come under fire because one or the other of you or both of you have changed just a bit. This will test the trueness of the friendship. Flexibility and adaptability!

[E G TEN]

Hey Riv, never play with scissors :-), friendship is a thing of the future, just like the
Season they tend to change. But there are a few that will always be there, no matter
how bad the weather could be. Cool poem Thanks.

[Chirag Kumar]

Wonderful poem Riv. Simple poem, nice imagery and excellent flow of words. Perfection accomplished.!