SNAPSONG   233

Niyi Osundare

Ode to Friendship

Good friendship is gooder than gold

     It  glows, never glitters,

In its  battle  against

     The  demons of darkness

Its givers never Brutus you

     When you turn your back

Nor crave a cunning Cassius

     To viper  your virtue        

They laugh when you laugh

     They mourn when you mourn

They are happy fellow hues

     In Life’s  capacious rainbow

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Ever so often,      

     They are your kindest critics

Who cut through your vanity

     With the cruel kindness of the surgical knife

In times of dire need

     You can share one grain of rice

And leave the dining table

      Contended and gratefully calm 

Good friendship is  gooder than gold

     It bends and never breaks

So malleable and glorious

     In life’s tempestuous fire

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