Your Best Friend

Your best friend is your closest ally
They know you inside and out
Even though they sometimes make you cry
Or make you want to scream and shout

Your best friend is your true-blue buddy
Through thick and thin they are
Always there for you when you’re feeling cruddy
Sometimes too close, but never too far

Your best friend is a gift you gave yourself
And they’ll never break or go out of style
Comforting books that are always on the shelf
Fully of silly phrases and kind words to help you through any trial

Your best friend is supposed to help you endure
Not causing, rather resolving your conflicts
So I never thought you’d be my saboteur
Who knew it would be me your poison afflicts

How was I supposed to know you’d hurt me
After you got close enough to scratch your name upon my soul
I couldn’t imagine that from my life you’d flee
Leaving me to fill the gaping hole

I should have known you were no different that the rest
You’d knock me down after carefully building me up
Into the darkness pieces of my spirit have been pressed
And tears splatter like raindrops into my teacup