You’re My Friend.

I heard you say ‘you’re my friend,’
and the sky came to touch the earth,
we sat between the stars,
it was easy to reach out
and touch them all.
I remember it was raining, I opened up, told you my favourite bands,
my favourite songs,
my favourite singer
and standing at the door, you shared too,
a perfect gift in return.
A song played on the radio, one you’d heard before
I knew the title, the singer,
and the lyrics, I sung a chorus for you
and you were impressed and wanted to buy the single.
I felt happy,
more than ever before,
the roof flew away,
sand dunes rose,
and on the peak
our Bedouin robes bellowed.
I looked into your eyes
for a moment
and you let me.
But do I believe it?
No. But I want to.
Then you came again and again
and I opened the door each time and when I saw it was you
I felt more like me, happy
instead of being the sad me, suffocated me, given up me.
It was so easy
I told you I want to travel to escape, to find somewhere safe.
You said I could read his mind
always wanted a beach holiday too
it wasn’t exactly the trip I had in mind
but the walls fell away and the ocean met the sand
and we were under the shade of a papaya tree
and you reached out
a hand
and my hand fit
perfectly.
Until one day
you let go and I drifted away
and the only other time I felt your hand
was as a fist your eyes filled with hate,
your heart with rage
my hands empty
my eyes cold and dead
my heart stone
and carved with the words
do not
trust.
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