Poems About Friendship,Family,Betrayal-Did You Have to Blindside Me? How You Killed Our Friendship With A Bold-Faced Lie

It is well past midnight

I should be sound asleep

Peaceful in my dreams

Frolicking with sheep

Not taking great deep breaths

To calm my beating heart,

Or counting from one to ten

Then back from ten to start

I should be cuddling with my husband

Warding off the winter chill

Not trying to cool my boiling blood

My stomach feeling ill

From digesting implications

Of something I can’t understand

Analyzing the philosophy

Of man’s inhumanity to man.

Trying to process the revelations

Brought forth by your betrayal

Searching to understand this

I try, but only fail

Like a puzzle missing pieces

Or a page missing from a book

Knowing it must be there

Continuing to look

Scouring my memory

Analyzing every scene

How did I miss that you are not

The person that you seemed?

My mind tells me it’s a futile search

One that will only bring more pain

At least one friend is worried

This quest will make me go insane

But I cannot seem to stop right now

My need to know is strong

What did I ever do to you,

That made you do me so very wrong?

Life-long friends we've always said

Life-long friends I've always believed

So I was blindsided by the moment

When I found I’d been deceived.

I want to justify your actions

Find a believable excuse

I certainly don’t want to find

You guilty of this abuse

Why did you say these things,

We both know are boldfaced lies?

I can’t find a rhyme or reason

As all logic this defies

I know I should be sleeping

The night is almost gone

But thoughts of what you've done

Continue on and on

Depriving me of peaceful dreams

They keep me wide awake

I don’t know how much more of this

My broken heart can take

I used to call you best friend

Close as a sister you were to me

The last gasps of this relationship

Now keeping me from sleep

The sun will soon be coming up

Beginning of a brand new day

In its illumination

The last of my denial fades away

Never could I have done this to you

So I cannot comprehend

The knife protruding from my back

Was put there by my friend

There is no explanation

That will make this go away

Not even if I search the earth

All through the night and day

I must accept the awful truth

And let these feelings die

The love I felt for you my friend

Was killed by a bold-faced lie.

_{- Kristen-Burns Darling}

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