I Have No Friends, and Want None

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Open Poetry #47

I Have No Friends, and Want None

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2011-01-27 10:15 PM

I have no friends, and need none-
Is what I one time said.
I've since then acquired several,
Now all of them are dead.
For years I was a loner
In life I walked alone
In every situation-
I faced it own on my own.
But then as I grew older-
I found to my surprise
I found an inner longing
To know the other guys.
The men whom I had worked with
Through several troubled years
I grew to know their families
Frustrations, and their fears.
I learned to know their weakness
Their strength and character
I'd sometimes tell them my dreams
And then they'd tell me theirs.
But, oh, the painful wakening
Which stabbed me to the heart
When friends of mine passed over
Forever we did part.
And no one knows the heartache
Which oft I felt inside
Nor tears which I have hidden
In my room, when I have cried;
Reverting to past wisdom
It's really like I said,
"I have no friends, and want none".
The ones I loved are dead.

The_Doctors_Angel_32
Member

since 2011-01-14

Posts 337
Florida, USA

1 posted 2011-01-27 10:18 PM

This is very beautifully written. I could feel the sadness as I read this. You may feel like this now but you always make new friends through the years.

When the family is together, the soul is at peace - Russian Proverb

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2011-01-28 08:19 AM

Love this piece..as always your words hold much truth. Keep in mind we are here and we ain't all dead yet

Lori

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

3 posted 2011-01-28 10:15 AM

John, you are like a good wine – you have mellowed with age. Your poem is beautiful, but I know you are not fooled any more by the second-last line. Smiles.

Owl

faithmairee
Senior Member

since 2011-01-05

Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA

4 posted 2011-01-28 01:28 PM

a profound and wise poem...expertly penned

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

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