You who
Don’t do ‘friend’
Should not pretend that
You can name
Someone as your ‘best’!
And vanish

How abruptly
Did I
Lose that Limb?

It - was an
Extra limb
But I
Contorted
Adapted my
Complete Existence
Re-learnt to walk
Learnt to
Appreciate the
Wobble

To facilitate I
Carved
Directly through the
Centre of
My self
Leaning
Propped
On others

I contorted my
View to continually
Access what it was
You accomplish that
No other
Could dream of
Ever doing
So perfectly

I worked
Overtime to
Uncover good reason
Against
Consistent advice
Not
To persist

And I persisted
I
Put aside
Life
In my Quest of
Loyalty to
This additional Limb

Until,
Without notice
I looked down
And it, the limb,
Had relocated
Left

Performed
It’s Own
Amputation
Leaving an
Unstitched
****** mess
Ripe for infection

And
In its place
A hollow echo
Sounds
‘We will
Always be
Best friends’

You shared
Your determination
Though
I ‘d never heard
You mention
Amputation

So the 16 years
You changed of
Gone
With a single
Deliberate
Slash


10 May 2014