A Farewell to Friends

<> Friendship is something very important to me, and losing friends is painfully difficult. I've learned that friendship can be both the most beautiful kind of love and the worst kind of heartbreak.

Graced with true love and friendship
I shouldn't be afflicted like this;
Relations strained make for hardship
and now I'm trapped in a hit-and-miss
tug of war
Between old smiles and new,
the former being lost in the sands of time

My heart being torn in two...

Should I let them go?

"They were her friends, anyway."

But they had become mine, and what about her...?

"Now they've all made you to be the prey."

I suppose I see,
but can I feel?
Letting go of what seemed real

She stole them back,
like she did the drawings we made in line
and the notes with words we now lack,
as if they were her friends and not mine

But did we not all shine, Bri?
In "the group" as we'd call it,
I felt so loved and free

It's a deep heart-hurt that's outlasted the end;
but I love again, and I'm so blessed
that the few old smiles that remain have made the tissue mend
as I bid a sad farewell to the unfaithful rest.

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[Alex P.]

All you can really do is shed the people who bring you down, sweetheart. I know what it's like to do that. Believe me it's not pretty, but once the pain dulls, you'll begin to realize that you're better off without those who would turn on you so easily.

I'm always here for you, Aries.