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I Had a Friend
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I Had a Friend


I had a friend

Who meant everything

I could go the extra miles

To be with this friend of mine

I could do the unimaginable

Just to let this friend of mine know

Or as an assurance of the things not seen


I had a friend.

who meant everything to me

I could be Jesus

And sacrifice my life for this friend of mine

Just, to make that face filled with so much joy

And make that heart filled with gladness


I had a friend

Who I loved to bits and more

Ye! more than the love I have for my mother

And close to the love I have for the Almighty 

This friend of mine just needs to speak

And I'll race to her side

With the speed that's more than

lightening 


Woe unto me!

My friend can't do the same

Oblivious to what I do and how I feel

Lackadaisical about things that happen to me

My emotion

Nonchalant to my cries for help

I became something I had dreaded for

longtime

A Shadow of Myself


Woe unto me

I delayed forging a path of my own

And had followed in the footprint

This friend of mine had left behind 

Where these footprint leads is not somewhere bad

But it is not where I want to be 

I still followed her anyway

I became something I shouldn't be

My Friend’s Shadow 


I sit to embrace whatever my friend does

I've been neglected by this friend of mine

But I feared for the greater negligence

Accepting the fact that I've been neglected

I don't want to snap out of this facade.

I can't face the reality

Reality is cruel, so I thought

I took my friend's reality to be mine.

I contrived to zoom deeper into this facade


Chances came

Yoruba will say "Ona Abayo” (way out)

But I wanted in, didn’t want to go

Then I snapped

I died and resurrected

This friend of mine knew nothing

I snapped

When I saw my friend with someone else

I finally accepted reality

When I finally embraced the greater negligence.


I had a friend

Who I loved to bits and more

Ye! more than the love I have for my mother

And close to the love I have for the Almighty 

I have come to terms with the fact that

This friend af mine loves me not

The question remains

Where should I start from?

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@Galaktic 06/08/2026
Beautiful

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