One True Friend

by methrirr123

Published April 4, 2013

My silent tears that fall in streams,
My muffled screams and tortured dreams,
All cloaked in false felicity,
For not a soul can see.

My friends are false, the links are weak,
The chain will break, my tortured shriek
That echoes as I fall to meet
My solitary fate.

As I fell the others scattered,
As down I plumetted, hopes shattered.
Alone you stood, for that I'm flattered,
For you thought you could help.

Too fast I fell, my wings shorn off,
And as I met the earth, they laugh.
You weep for part of me to keep,
My fallen corpse is all.

Of those who thought themselves my friends,
Just you alone delayed my end.
Just know that you were true and dear,
And weep not for my death.

For there was never any hope,
Just one alone could not have saved
My life was doomed to end alone.
And so it has. Goodbye.
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Hanorah
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Hanorah wrote a review Review · Apr 5, 2013

Hi I'm hanorah this is my review hope it helps you!

This is a great poem ,I wrote on like this last night as I don't have any true,close friends so I relate to this poem a lot!I really like how this came from the heart abd this maked this poem more powerful,really respect you for that!don't have anything bad to write about this poem,well done!I give it 10/10

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noelsugarcube
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noelsugarcube wrote a review Review · Apr 4, 2013

This is a morbid poem..... well, suppose it said so at the beginning. So as for my critique of this poem, first, good choice of words. It was very descriptive and made me shiver. Probably the only thing that bugs me is that i think two words are spelled wrong. "Fy" as far as i know isn't a word, and you spelled, "themselves" wrong. probably accidentally though. so yeah, that's my 2 cents on this piece. Over all, this piece was very good(did I say that before? idk, what ever).

I corrected that shortly after Kameron's review.

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ka67
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ka67 wrote a review Review · Apr 4, 2013

Wow...first off let me say this is an extremely good poem! I love it! I am Kameron, and I'll give the best review I can ;D

first off, the entire thing is quite straight forward and easy to understand which it good but also locks off any idea for speculation. Not a bad thing, but maybe use different words or sentences to induce speculation while still leading them to the end. I do love the poem as it is, but I also know the same idea could be revised and leave everyone on edge. Like
'As Im falling, letting my tears slip beside me
Plunging toward the earth and my demise
You meet me in the last second
Lives entwined to the very end'
or something along those lines. It would leave someone to think, maybe, just possibly!, the poor thing survived. What a riveting drop off, eh? :D

You do have a few spelling errors, maybe double spacing or on the 2nd to last paragraph. 'Of those who thought themsleces my friends' I am sure that 'themsleces' is supposed to be themselves, correct? And 'Fy friends are false,' that should be My? simple mistakes that I make commonly, don't worry ;D

either way, I love the poem and think it needs very little to almost no improvements. I just think it could be taken and made into something with much much more drama and a hanging end. Any questions, PM or post to ask ;D

Hope isn't realistic, and that's what I tried to portray in this poem, as well as realizing how few the number of your true friends may be. And thanks for pointing out my spelling, I rushed through the typing of this one after writing it down on a notebook piece of paper.



Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
— Chinese proverb