2. fake friends

these days,

it seems like everyone’s

trying to leave,

even when i would plead

for them to stay,

instead they’d throw up the deuces,
say peace

and beam.
lately,

so many have walked out

that i’ve lost count,

so much for always

being here for me

when i need it.
they’d say it

but now
i’ll never believe in it.

lost one that i thought
i could call my brother,
we looked so alike

they thought we were,

but so he goes,

and gone too

is the one

i had once called
a sister-in-law,

i’d thought she was sweet

but now i’m cut off,

it honestly sucks,

i wish them the best, though.
they’re better than the one
who supported these words
but now wants to forget

i’d ever been a part of his life,
pulled the shit i told him

i’d been most scared of,

like a snake slithering down me,
what a way to go out, huh?

and then there’s another
i’ve done things for

that i would’ve never thought
he’d need this early,

paid out-of-pocket to help him
and offered up anything

in a time of desperate need,
but apparently,

just wasn’t enough,

and so the story is told

in the same way as the others:

dropped without any reason,

has me feeling like i’m nothing,

never worthy of the love

they’ll give to others,
hope they aren’t faking it to them

in the same way they did

straight up to my face.

because no one deserves that.