Open my eyes
Open my eyes,
Because now I see all of my friends embarking,
On a new mission,
They are flying on a space ship,
Across the sky,
From down here I see,
The space ship taking off,
It is exciting,
And I am happy for my friends,
This is something that they been dreaming of for a long time,
This is a one time opportunity,
I don’t like flying at all,
I am not jealous,
Open my eyes,
And let me see a world without death and violence,
Open my eyes,
And let me and my friends live free,
Because we are living on borrow time,
And death is fast approaching because the world that we know is ending,
The new day is here,
For me and my friends,
Open my eyes,
My friends and l are free to give thanks,
By my side, my friends and l will always be,
Open my eyes,
Now we need to console each other,
To hold together and hope for a better future,
Who knows where the future will lead us friends?
I don’t like to say goodbye to all of my friends,
Because I need to show my friends that I am strong,
My friends the pair of boots that I am wearing are made for walking,
We can’t understand the reason why we are free,
I understand the looks in all of my friends eyes,
And their tears,
I will let my friends know how much they mean to me,
It is time for me to let go of all of the bad things that I have done to my friends,
Open my eyes,
Show me heaven, God,
Let me and my friends see heaven,
Your friendship is more than words can express friends,
Make me love you my friends,
God don’t give up on us,
You are all of the friends that support me in my daily life,
My friends and I are unbreakable,
I wont say good bye to this day,
And neither to my friends,
My friends and I dig up a diamond,
This is us in this picture taken a long time ago,
With you friends,
Tonight we need strength,
To get us through,
Friends gave me their happy smiles,
Me and my friends are meeting the girls across the river,
Open my eyes,
The burden of life we have all carried,
Thank you for our life God,
Friends don’t be ashamed of your age,
Speak to me friends and breathe,
We gave you our hearts God,
Friends the last thing to go was this old tree,
That was planted on the side of the old road,
My friends and I have chocolate on our tongues,
We have been craving sugar all day,
That sweet taste,
We can feel,
Open my eyes,
So I can see the atlas,
I will be able to see all the world,
Friends I don’t mind the wind blowing on my face,
Let’s take a giant step together friends,
When we all feel the sun in our hearts,
Friends let’s get right with God,
Friends all that we are living for is peace and Justice,
Friends there is no need to watch the news,
Because there is enough suffering in the world,
Open my eyes,
So I can see “ The Pirate of the Caribbean “ sailing in their ship-sailing with my friends over the,
Atlantic Sea,
We are glad that the water beneath the colorless ice is,
Motionless,
We are longing for a simple life and a world that is,
Transparent,
To my friends and me, honey is the scent of freedom,
Open my eyes,
Let me see that skin that is aging gracefully,
All of my friends can see that I am aging gracefully also,
Sometimes I have to remind myself that my friends care,
About me,
Inside of me there is some bittnerness , resentment and,
Guilt that I feel,
There is something about my friends that you have to,
Know,
They are here for me,
Right where I want them to be,
Friends I sometimes tell you stupid things,
Because sometimes I feel that I am losing my mind,
The best day is yet to come,
This is the day that we are standing in front of,
Ground zero,
Some of them could have been our families,
Friends are better with me  together,
Friends do you remember the last time that we were in,
The Carribbean?
Friends I believe that dreams will be dreams,
Open my eyes,
Let me see that cookie jar on the kitchen counter,
Because I can never say no to a cookie,
Friends I always remember spring,
My friends are related to me,
It is so good that I know you all friends,
Open my eyes,
I saw this house down the street,
I had shown it to my friends,
They could not believe what they saw,
There was graffiti written on the walls of that house,
What a mess,
The ones that did it, thought it was art,
Or maybe a form of expression,
To us it was horrible,
Friends, the fools we are as men,
Open my eyes,
And let me see the wild flowers in the forest where this,
Time, I walk alone, without my friends,
Friends, you will always be the same to me,
Jesus don’t touch my friends,
Friends, I want to be the one that places the wreath at the,
Soldiers grave, every Remembrance Day,
Open my eyes,
Open my eyes,
Open my eyes,
Open my eyes.

FRIENDS

Friends meaning so many definitions,
Really can be interpreted in so many ways,
I can think of so many meanings of a friend,
Everyone interprets friends differently
No wonder the word is left so openly,
Do you get confused by this word too?
Surly there is just one meaning of this word-

-FRIENDS
(Read vertically first letters)

© By HF-Whisper
22/2/2020

FRIENDS STATEMENT

Friends-Acquaintances.
Friends-Friends with Benefits. (F.W.B)
Friends- Friends.
Friends- By text only.
Friends-Social Media friends only.
Friends- Long distance -International friends.
Friends- One night stand. (O.N.S)
Friends-Casual.
Friends-Ongoing casual.
Friends-Regular catch up’s-but only at events.
Friends- Regular catch up’s only one on one.
Friends-Equally balanced catch ups.
Friends-No dating but showing interest.
Friends-Not interested but acting interested.
Friends-How can I benefit from having you as my friend?
Friends- In good times and bad.
Friends-Lifelong friends.

-How many kinds of friends do you have?
I'm sure you can think of more!

FRIENDS

© By HF-Whisper
22/2/2020

Are we still there?
Praying to God
Every night before
We go to sleep
Yes friends
It only takes a few minutes
To pray to my God
Also, you can ask in you
Prayer for my God
To give you some health, peace,
And a stress-free life
Because your friends live
A stressful life
Every single day
That you live here on
Earth
Also, you don’t live a peaceful
Life friends
Because your life is in a turmoil
Friends
Also friends you no longer
Live a healthy life
You suffer
From bad arthritis
In your legs and back
My friends
Also friends you must
Remember that our bodies
Are also fragile
Friends another day is about
To end now
The sun went down
Friends right now
And friends you saw
The beautiful sunset
Now friends it is already
Night time
And friends you can’t believe
How fast the night arrived
Also, my friends are going to
Bed now to sleep
They never stay up past their bedtime
So my friends go to bed early
Every single night
So they can get a proper sleep
Every single night
Now friends the morning has
Broken
And it is another day
Full of sun that my father
Brought to you my friends
Friends you had taken a peek
In the sky and there was no
Trace of rain
Friends, I must say
That you are very lucky with
The weather
Also friends you will have
Lots of days without rain
Friends remember
That you should enjoy the
Summer
Because the Summer
Is ending soon
And also friends my father
Will end the hot weather
Then my father will bring
The Fall for you
Also friends you will be
Having the cold days during
The Fall
And friends it will be the
The right time to put the Summer
Clothes away
And friends now is the time
For you to wear your Winter clothes
That will be your flannel shirt
And also wear the top part of you
Long johns and also the bottom part
Yes friends the trees are now changing
There color from green to gold
And some people are raking
The dead leaves of the trees
My friends
And also some people
Are placing the dead lives
Inside the garden bags
Yes now the trees are
Already bare for
The winter
Friends today is the
The day that we are going to change
The clocks
One our back
Also, the Fall ended today
Friends
My father brought the
First day of Winter today
Now the days are shorter
My friends
And it gets dark by 5:00 pm
My friends find it very depressing
And I don’t blame them

Are we still there?
Praying to God
Every night before
We go to sleep
Yes friends
It only takes a few minutes
To pray to my God
Also, you can ask in you
Prayer for my God
To give you some health, peace,
And a stress-free life
Because your friends live
A stressful life
Every single day
That you live here on
Earth
Also, you don’t live a peaceful
Life friends
Because your life is in a turmoil
Friends
Also friends you no longer
Live a healthy life
You suffer
From bad arthritis
In your legs and back
My friends
Also friends you must
Remember that our bodies
Are also fragile
Friends another day is about
To end now
The sun went down
Friends right now
And friends you saw
The beautiful sunset
Now friends it is already
Nighttime
And friends you can’t believe
How fast the night arrived
Also, my friends are going to
Bed now to sleep
They never stay up past their bedtime
So my friends go to bed early
Every single night
So they can get a proper sleep
Every single night
Now friends the morning has
Broken
And it is another day
Full of sun that my father
Brought to you my friends
Friends you had taken a peek
In the sky and there was no
Trace of rain
Friends, I must say
That you are very lucky with
The weather
Also friends you will have
Lots of days without rain
Friends remember
That you should enjoy the
Summer
Because the Summer
Is ending soon
And also friends my father
Will end the hot weather
Then my father will bring
The Fall for you
Also friends you will be
Having the cold days during
The Fall
And friends it will be the
The right time to put the Summer
Clothes away
And friends now is the time
For you to wear your Winter clothes
That will be your flannel shirt
And also wear the top part of you
Long johns and also the bottom part
Yes friends the trees are now changing
The color from green to gold
And some people are raking
The dead leaves of the trees
My friends
And also some people
Are placing the dead lives
Inside the garden bags
Yes now the trees are
Already bare for
The winter
Friends today is the
The day that we are going to change
The clocks
One our back
Also, the Fall ended today
Friends
My father brought the
First they of Winter today
Now the days are shorter
My friends
And it gets dark by 5:00 pm
My friends find it very depressing
And I don’t blame them

Here’s a little story
About a daughter
And her family

See the daughter has depression and anxiety
But the mother is oblivious
The mother is unaware of the depression
She genuinely believes that cutting and the fact that her daughter goes to therapy are linked to anxiety

And yet
Even though the mother seems to think that it’s only anxiety
Meaning that the anxiety is that extreme
She still wakes the daughter up
By screaming
She still questions the daughter
In front of a crowd
She still yells at the daughter, overwhelms her
And sends her into a panic attack

And yet all the people on the outside see is a mother worried about her daughter
And trying to help her
By taking her to therapy
But they don’t see the locked doors
They don’t see the screaming
The name calling
The belittling
They don’t see
That the mother
Is the reason that the daughter
Has to fight
So **** hard
To want to live

They don’t see that the daughter is only happy with her friends
They don’t see the scars on her arms, legs, and hips
They don’t see that the daughters only escape is when she’s not at home
They don’t see that the very therapist the mother takes her to
Is proud of the daughter
For staying alive
In such
Rough
Circumstances
Blood doesn’t mean family

But enough about the mother lets move on to the father.
The father that refused to pay child support for the first 3 years after the divorce
The father that had a second child, the daughter’s half brother, with another woman
The father that is engaged to a different woman now
The father that, when evacuated from his city due to a fire, took his fiancé to Jamaica instead of seeing his kids
The father that forgot his daughters birthday
The father that is “old school”
Which just means
Sexist
And homophobic
Blood doesn’t mean family

Next is the sister
The sister that supports me
The sister that laughs with me
The sister that understands how I feel
The sister that helps me when I need it
The sister that believes in me
That loves me
The sister creates fun and amazing stories and experiences with me
Just because she’s in the mood to have fun
The sister that raised me to be a good person
That taught me
And teaches me
How to get through life
Blood doesn’t mean family

Finally
The friends
The friend that gave me a reason to live
The friend that gave me a reason to laugh
The friend that showed me that it can get better and that they love and care for me and they don’t just “hope I get through this” but that they are going to be there and make sure that I get through this
The friend that marched with me with a rainbow
The friend that treated my relationships the same as straight ones
The friend that told me she’s open to the experience if I want to kiss her
The friends that I can flirt with and we laugh about it
The friends that I can flirt with and it becomes a little more than just friends
The friends who maybe I’m not as close with but who still show interest in my life and what I’m interested in and let me talk about activism because it makes me happy to empower people
The friend that made me believe in beautiful
The friend that stayed up with me when I had a nightmare about my molesting and help my hand until I fell back asleep
The friend that stated up all night on FaceTime singing songs together from our favourite band
The friend that boosts my ego when we go to the gym
The friend that cried when she found out I self harmed
The friends that worry about me and want me to get better
The friends that live far away
The friends that live close by
The friends that have shown me more love and happiness in the past year than I’ve known my whole life
The friend that was there even when I felt numb to the world and they just let me be but they made sure I know they’re here
The friends that ask questions when they don’t understand
The friends that are interested in what I do
The friends that offer me a place to stay should I need it
The friends who make sure I eat
The friends who worry when I don’t eat
The friends who sit at the back of the bus
The friends who get drunk
The friends who throw skittles at people
The friends who are in my class
The friends who are older than me
The friends who are younger than me
The friends who help me with homework
The friends who show me there are good people in the world
The friends
Who stick by me
And show me
That
Blood doesn’t mean family

We don’t choose the situation we are born into
But we do get to choose
Who our family is
So thank you
To my real family
For not only keeping me alive
But making me happy to be.

Some friends are friends who pleasures themselves seeing you inferior to them;Some friends are friends measures their success by comparing your life to theirs;Some friends are friends who is worst than your foes you will never know what lies behind their grins;Some friends are friends of strangers who blindly judged who you are from what you do;Some friends are friends like drugs that gets you high and drags you down real low;Some friends are friends who won't let you suffer alone and like brothers or sisters they'll stay to see things through;Some friends are friends that are hard to find unlike those who are self proclaimed and undermined;Some friends are friends like cancer they grow but you will never die having them;Some friends are friends who ***** that you **** too having them around so tell me more what are friends to you?

Ok…today I’m talking about my friends…in the pre-cyberspace era and now in 2012…feel free to interrupt and ask questions as they pop up in your heads…


Part 1: pre-cyberspace

1
I love this age
of the internet

but ages ago
(pre-cyberspace)
I was lonely
I had no friends
and my neighbors
gave me ***** looks;
and my classmates
when I gave them scone
they gave me scorn


2
I wrote to prospective penpals
but they never replied -
those *******!
Nothing ever in my mail
in exchange for the thousands I sent!
It was just a ***** scheme
to collect my stamps!
And maybe they’re Buffet-style investors –
thought one day I’ll be famous
so they’ve collected my letters
in my elegant handwriting...


3
by the way
any of you of my age here at this site -
any of you got my unloved, collected penpal letters?
Well you know what?
I never became famous;
I became a poet
and poets never make money -
so what have you got?
My letters you collected
are as worthless as banana peel!
Losers!
You should have bought Coca-Cola shares
like Warren Buffet!
Losers!





Part 2: and then came cyberspace

4
Ah, so woe was me then
with no friends -
then came the internet
And wow! Did I get mail!
Now I’ve got countless mail and mail again –
You’ve got mail!
You’ve got mail!
chirp my computers!
(Yeah – I got so much mail
I need a herd of computers!)
And what did you say?
Spam? Junk mail?
I mean, OK, there’s junk mail and spam, yeah –
Hey! What’s wrong with you guys?
You people have too many questions!
You jelalous?
One thing’s sure never changed in the world -
All you wise guys and spoilsports!

5
Well
and as the tornado of my e-mails implies
the internet has brought me countless friends:
Hey, all those penpals who never replied -
Eat your hearts out, baby! -
Cos yours truly now has
countless numbers of friends
at various sites like *Faceless
Friendless, Lonely Hearts Full of Holes –
to mention just a few

6
And you know what?
I get so many just writing to me - to me,
with requests –
Requests! - see how polite and civilised my friends be?
Well, there’re just so many
I’ve had to turn down quite a few
who’re not, shall we say,
not good-looking enough, unlike me…
You know, it’s important, to be seen in good company
What?
Sure…you want proof? Just a few names
from the infinite list of my friends will suffice, you say?
Yeah, here are some of my friends with such distinguished names:
Gummy bear…Porcupine…Desperado…Mexican Jumping Beans…
Kosovo Sweetheart…Reindeer Pie…China Doll…Ninja Turtles…
And hey – don’t you try steal any of my friends!
Sure some people turn me down –
like that guy what’s-his-name in Syria?
Yeah – him…he said he doesn’t want to be friends;
says he’s too busy fixing his people…
Then I asked
yeah, I asked President Obama – but he said
he has got enough Aussie friends,
in high places, might I add, he said
Oh, but he’s no idea about
the value of my Friends Database!
I asked Vladamir Putin
(since he’s so many friends in Russia)
but he says he’s busy at the moment
caring for the people of his nation…
(No wonder he’s so many friends in his nation
who all turn out in the streets to show him their love.)
But hey? Who needs them anyway -
when I’ve got friends like Rasputin?
Yeah, see – I’ve not only friends in cyberpsace
but from otherspace too,
but that’s another story…

Point being: thanks to cyberspace
at last
I’ve got all the friends I want!
By the way,
did I mention my friend Chubby Pinch My Bottom?