A Friend Is.....

A friend is one who is like me, or is it one who likes me much, and maybe someone you can touch? Perhaps a buddy who would be in all dark alleys in your need who'd fish you out of murky waters and bandage when you slowly bleed he will protect your sons and daughters and close the shutters on your house when rains come down to soil the drapes a friend will never bring a mouse or other things like living apes to scare you out of any wits that you may still possess today he will collect you from the pits and hug you even if you're gay he'll pay your fare on the express and go to jail to take your place and cleaning up of any mess that you've created, to save face will all be done without agenda no thought of payment does come up and should you have a fender-bender he'll hide your bottle from the cop when very strange ideas come visit and you decide to pack a shute to jump, a nut's idea, or is it? out of an aeroplane you brute he will be waiting on the ground his arms wide open and so nervous and when he hears the crucial sound he'll think back to his airforce service and knowing what can go awry the fretting gets his teeth to clatter and when you fruitcake finally fly he murmurs that it doesn't matter yet as you float in to a landing his arms are still in catching mode he'll hide his lack of understanding and start composing a new ode to your adventure, you, the friend and if your mother or your brother or any other next of kin should die and leave you, let another example of true friendship win your hand will never feel the cold or loneliness of cruel fate and when you wake and have grown old and all the world is in a state that narrows down to search of gold and greed that tramples all that's good when anarchy eats moral pillars and thieves no longer wear their hood when doctors have evolved as killers and no one seems to give a shit about all others, beast and man when humans are no longer fit your friend who also has his clan will not be busy with his life but shake your hand and not let go and if he has his own sweet wife he will be there with her in tow One could go on for many hours to praise what real friendship is suffice to say it never sours and also hardly counts as bliss. Yet, there are just a few small matters a friend will stand, no reservation and if the world is all in tatters if aliens would attack your nation there is no compromise at all and loyalty must be extreme to share it one will surely fall that kind of friend is just a dream. I cannot have a friend who likes those who have sworn to be my foes and who would drive their filthy spikes into my back, who also chose to live a life of pure decay and without honour in their hearts to opportunism they pray it must be said, it really smarts. Perhaps a moral could be seen here before you call yourself a friend just ask yourself if you have been there to read these words that don't offend are you prepared to stand, be counted no matter what the circumstance and would you, if the devil mounted all out attack, could you by chance be trusted to the road's last bend or would you stop and smell the flowers and worry that your life may end this kind of friendship only sours. So let me say it with conviction a friend is one who is your master who rules within his jurisdiction and keeps you out of all disaster and you, in turn are his dictator who, firm and strict, with iron fist will rule like Arn the Terminator I hope by now you get my gist.