Best Friends
You’re a Brutis, a Judas;
Living vain in your deceitful way.
For my friend to call a fiend;
Has brought my heart to disarray.
I have so better loved you;
Divine wretch that you are;
Better to myself than any star.
Child of ones so like mine own;
I saw in you my very bone.
But you have dissuaded me of ever I have known.
With your words, persuaded me;
Of outward love not shown.
With fingers crossed between clinched teeth;
So have you hissed behind my ear;
Ushered the world to my defeat;
Rattled the cage with borrowed fear.
Defied in your will; I will not shed a tear.
But for all my life I will remember;
What has happened here.