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