Friends have been dead to me
Begged me
On bended knee
Spare me your pity
Your judgment
Your envy
I just want your friendship
I don’t need
Your enmity
Only you
Make me
Your enemy
Then be my friend again
Nothing could change that
But they
Lose their way
And we cannot rephrase that
Without sounding deep
In the worry about
We can only cut deep
In more reasons to doubt
One another’s integrity
Manly
Identity
Loyalty
Honesty
Honestly, everything
Save for the rain on parades
In good fun
And that’s all that I meant
By the quick-to-draw gun

Look at me
Look at me
Narcissistic
Tendency
Enemies
Nemeses
Everywhere
Dependency
Unfriending
Distant memories
Becoming
Penitentiaries  
To place the blame
In block chain cages
Gamify
The dread AI
Then manufacture
Your outrages
Cheap
From its
All-seeing eye

Childhood made this
Default to
Fantastical
Maturation
Then forbade it
Impractical
Always though
Something to hide
And yet simplify
Something inside
All the others would
Vilify
Vying for more
Stories told
They’d control
But I found my form
Still most befitting
The scroll

Funny how
The pinnacles
Of civilized
Could circumcise
And always find a reason
To make endless warring
Justified

Find myself beaming
Like spectacles gleaming
And trapped
In my craft
I’m more passively
Scheming
Than many years past
All this hubris was riven
With oceans of vast
Blasphemies
Unforgiven
But checked from my heights
Has my vision ignited  
And wrecked from my spiteful
Ambitions
Delighted
In treacheries,
Leprosies
Can’t stop afflicting
The world
And its beings
With paradigm shifting

And one day soon
Hence
You will get your
Comeuppance
Your tongue-biting
Sycophants
Stay their reluctance
To mutiny
23 times
Run you through
As across senate floors
Your blood pours
Into view