What would you do...for a friend?

Random musings.

What would you do for a friend?

Would you help them achieve their dreams

At the cost of losing yours with them?

Would you help them find a way home

If they were stranded with no way back?

Would you let them follow their path

Taking your heart along for the ride?

Would you let them walk into the lion’s den

Letting them learn a life lesson the hard way?

Would you risk telling them you love them

As more than a friend, knowing it’s unrequited?

Would you let them go when they wanted you to?

What would you do.... for a friend?

Reviews

[Larissa G.]

I see the beginning of your ponderings, which I would hope would make those of us without those ideals willing to pursue them to better ourselves. For that, I applaud you.

May I say it feels incomplete, like there's a statement or a message waiting to come out that wasn't quite finished? I would love to see maybe another stanza explaining more.

[Leo Gems]

I have done all of the above.. with different people at different times. It has been a journey of smiles, tears, heartbreak, craziness, and love. Great questions to ask to prompt your reader for some self-reflection and maybe just maybe shed some clarity as to how a friend is treating them.

Reflective ink! Great job!

[Shadows of Sight]

Oh! I would most certainly not let a friend walk into a lions den! They might get eaten! Then again if the friend was a lion, I suppose it wouldn't matter. :)
Over all I think this piece asks some valid questions, not towards the friend, but for the innerself of he or she that is standing next to the friend.
We as a race learns from our mistakes. Yes, it may be good to bump a friend on the shoulder everyonce in a while and let them know the choices that they are making are self destructive or not. But over all if friends shelter friends to much, then no one learns to grow, and every one gets complacent.

Alot like bears who keep getting fed by onlookers, don't realize it's time to go on about their own business away from mankind.

I guess the question that this brings to my mind, is what is to much help? Where is the line between supressing their growth and helping them?

Great Piece!
Nature's Essence

[Joseph - Michael]

It's like reading "What Would Jesus Do?" except it's asking me (and the readers) on what we would really do for our friends. That's something we all need to think about as if we should or should not. Also, I agree with L.G. that it does feel a bit incomplete in some ways...

On the other hand, it's all still good tho...

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Yes!!! All of the above. I have recently had to let someone go because of loving too much and it is difficult, probably one of the most painful things I have had to do, but if that is the way it has to be then, not only are you pushing it uphill if you don't make a change, but you stand a very good chance of losing the lot.
Thank you for your understanding heart, so obvious in this piece of truthful prose.
Cheers to a hopeful heart...
Helen :-)))

[Dizzy-Izzy]

I have been loved by such a friend
I walked into that "Lion's Den"
I resent the lesson learned
The purifying fire burned
I lost that friend
Preoccupied with my own dreams
I couldn't see
The only dream he had was me
A gaping hole left in the end
I have been loved by such a friend

[Forest Green]

Soul searching questions capturing the choices of a deep relationship. Where does it begin and end...?

Precious and tender musings.

Good work, Andrea.

Daniel