A poem, prompted by thoughts of friendship, especially… the friends we’ll never see.<\/p>\n
Friends.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Friends don’t let wrong<\/em> {It’s a little rough around the edges, but then again, so is true friendship. :)}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A poem, prompted by thoughts of friendship, especially… the friends we’ll never see. Friends. Friends don’t let wrong distract you from the right. Into the abyss, true Friends won’t let you slide, no, true Friends will hold you up, they never stand aside, when from ugly truth we’d hide. Too often we all will slip, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[167,168],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-friends","tag-friendship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n distract you from the right.<\/em>
\n Into the abyss,<\/em>
\n true Friends<\/em>
\n won’t let you slide,<\/em>
\n no, true Friends will hold you up,<\/em>
\n they never stand aside,<\/em>
\n when from ugly truth<\/em>
\n we’d hide.<\/em>
\n Too often we all<\/em>
\n will slip,<\/em>
\n but true Friends<\/em>
\n will never let us fall.<\/em>
\n True Friends…<\/em>
\n they help us to stand tall.<\/em>
\n ~<\/em>
\n When what we say seems wrong,<\/em>
\n true Friends will set us right.<\/em>
\n For us they’ll always fight.<\/em>
\n From our battles true,<\/em>
\n true Friends never take flight.<\/em>
\n Yet when our motives are askew,<\/em>
\n our Friends will follow through,<\/em>
\n they’ll save us from our plight,<\/em>
\n and shield us,<\/em>
\n from our due.<\/em>
\n ~<\/em>
\n Friends,<\/em>
\n they drag us to the light,<\/em>
\n when toward the dark we tend,<\/em>
\n true Friends…<\/em>
\n their love will never end.<\/em>
\n Though we stress them sore,<\/em>
\n true Friends will bar wrong’s door.<\/em>
\n Then those same Friends<\/em>
\n will let us pass,<\/em>
\n when others would slam salvation’s gate.<\/em>
\n Friends don’t hem us in,<\/em>
\n when from their beliefs we stray,<\/em>
\n though Friends will let us,<\/em>
\n should we choose,<\/em>
\n they’ll never force us…<\/em>
\n to pray.<\/em>
\n ~<\/em>
\n True Friends don’t forget,<\/em>
\n neither do they forgive,<\/em>
\n yet true Friends do understand,<\/em>
\n so include true Friends,<\/em>
\n in all of your plans.<\/em>
\n Friends don’t step aside,<\/em>
\n when we need them most,<\/em>
\n true Friends<\/em>
\n stand at our side.<\/em>
\n ~<\/em>
\n What is a true Friend’s role<\/em>?
\n That,<\/em>
\n my unseen Friend,<\/em>
\n is to keep you,<\/em>
\n on the path<\/em>
\n toward your goal.<\/em>
\n ~<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n