friend

ehh...here I go again divagating

friend
it has been so long
i wonder if you still listen to our songs
i know you're tired and need some time
it's not like you've pushed me to the side
so it's not so hard
because
you will come back
and tell me all about
those new ideas
those new songs
those new friends
you've been with
because you're my friend
so i'll check my schedule
free every weeknd
just in case
i'll keep writing
melancholic letters
let you know
of our favorite bands
of our favorite series
of all our favorite inside jokes
of everything you're too busy to know about
because you're my friend
and I wi-
should wait for you

Reviews

[Tony Jordan]

Wow Winter this is so sad.

Some people are people people and they can make us feel so wanted when we are in their company but then it feels so cold when they divert their entire energy to new friends.
Is it being flakey, is it flitting? I guess, to an extent but if we choose to give the keys of our happiness to others, if we depend on them for our happy, then perhaps we are the one's being unfair. It's not fair to heap the responsibility for our happy onto others.
The inability to 'chill out' is likely to force them away forever.

A totally relatable write. A very well written poem.
(damn well love that word 'divagating' - I thought it meant acting the diva!!)

[winter;lyra]

I myself, try my best to not depend on others, to not like people too much, but once in a while someone comes around and screws up your whole hermit agenda - "it's not like you've pushed me to the side" - when he says this, you can feel it (i hope), he knows to an extent that he/she (the friend) has left him but he's too attached to let go - name is Denial, that's what this "poem" is about, refusing to accept the end of a friendship

[winter;lyra]

(also thanks for you review, I rarely get reviews and most of the times i get reviews it's basic non-substantial comments which...are not so fullfilling..and i love that word too (most of my "poetry" are written on my states of divagation))

[Tony Jordan]

I know the hermit agenda - I think it's a Universal protective coping mechanism - Simon and Gurfunkel sang 'I am a rock - I am an island..' which speaks to many.
It is hard to take the rejection unless your the one doing the purging and being the people person.

[Tony Jordan]

I don't really go in for short reviews - which irks some people lol.
I'm intrigued that you describe your poems as divagating - that implies you have a one-track mind usually - what track is it?

[winter;lyra]

I can't say for sure, it is a hard to explain sensation i get once i finish writing, but like
http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/Meethaphore/1835344/ this< and

http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/Meethaphore/1845370/ this

feel more on my main "track"

now, this one (friend) and http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/Meethaphore/1832080/ this for example don't fall on it

i believe it is the personal touch?

[Tony Jordan]

for personal touch - you mean maybe 'comfort zone', no?

[winter;lyra]

perhaps, the ones that i feel are out of my "track" (sorry i picked up your word and won't let go now) were (as fair as i remember) while i was going through hard times, i might have written then as a form of coping

some cut themselves i just write depressing poems aye

[Tony Jordan]

Its not unusual...
neither forms of coping are I guess.

[Tony Jordan]

I noticed your name - meetaphore - that's my track.

[winter;lyra]

i know, i'm studying it as i relate it to you, i mean, all my "poems" are somewhat personal, could be because those are more revealing, i don't know

[Tony Jordan]

I think it's more accessible to write what we know (our story) - Not easier per se - more difficult if anything since we'll relive the 'difficult times' to pen them.
It's therapy though.

[Jackie]

A lovely read. Really sweet. Thanks for posing