I have a rule on friendship
I only trust people as far as I can throw them
Needless to say
I only keep fat people around me so trust is minimal
Friendship is like an incurable STD
You drink water thinking there will be a better result
but it still burns when you pee
Yet I stay protected and elect to select
using criteria based on lessons learned
Pretend-ship to friendship, those two go hand and hand
so I wear gloves to stay from catching that germ
I trusted once and had to find out for myself
just how cold some can be
Now my vision is “40/20 perceptive”
so if I get screwed I can only blame it on me
If we can’t converse, relate, hang, and debate
how the phuck you figure we can date?
That is the injustice of a blind man’s mistake
trying to cross High Street without the aid of fate
Those of the same sex profess to take all and give less
I don’t let it get me upset
I subtract the dagger in my back
and nomadically wonder to altitudes of less stress
Loyalty is a funny thing with a genuine ring
I do not have friends
either I consider you family or I don’t call you a thing
I cannot understand
how anyone could betray my affection
as if unconditional love grows old
You know what?
“Phuck all of you people” who
didn’t understand the pact that we made
“Phuck all of you” who did me wrong
when all I ever did was show you
the treasured buried in my minds cave
“Phuck all of you” who I trusted enough
to let you inside the words on each page
“And phuck all of you” who have me writing
with such conviction about hating your ways
Oh shyt….who am I kidding
friends will be friends
But this is my revelation of a friendship
that had to begin in order to end

©Freddie Scott