The invisible friend

I'm the invisible friend.

Always there to talk to,

Someone who will walk through

all the darkness with you.

But since you do not see me,

you don't need to ask me

how I feel.

You can ignore me,

as long as you don't need me.

But when you need me,

I'm there by your side,

cause I'm your friend.

Your invisible friend.

Reviews

[Willard Wells]

I will not try to read into this, but just tell you where I go with this piece and I love it. I have certain brain function that my daughter has also and she talks of the noise. Her name for the information overload coming into our brains second by millisecond.

For some it is an overpowering control of their mind. For me it multi-tasking and hyper speed. I just have lots of friends in my mind, as we all do at different levels. It just matters if you're in control or the invisible friend. I prefer that I am in control.

Sorry, just having some fun. Great work. And apparently I liked it. When I get on my soapbox I was moved in someway by the piece.

[ANTO]

Excellent title - such a sad tale. Is real friendship so one-sided? Or is this poem describing it a form of dependency meeting a form of desperation. Friends are there for each other - care about each other - don't use each other when it suits them.

[Eri]

A real friendship shouldn't be as one-sided as this, but still, I consider it as a friendship. The friend I was writing about always comes to me to talk about her problems and I listen and give advise. On the other hand, I can tell her anything and she listens more or less, but she doesn't really seem to care. So sometimes I feel like she just uses me to get rid of her thoughts. Friendship is a vague thing, and sometimes - like in this case - it is hard to tell who is a friend and who is not. And when you realise that someone is not a real friend, it is hard to end the friendship because you have gone so far and know each other very well..

[ANTO]

Your poem and reply bring a lot to the debate on friendship itself Eri.
I think we should use our intuition a lot - if we feel we are being used then despite the pain involved, for our own overall well-being we must be prepared to bail. On the other hand some people dont know any better and if we care about them then I feel we should strive to educate them about the real benefits of having and duties of being friends.