Dear Friend

dear friend-
I guess now is a time as good as any
to tell you
you are not my friend.
For
you pour acid down my throat,
and speak in words of broken glass
you push me into deep water
when you know I know not how to swim.
you know all my weaknesses,
and then hurl them at me when I'm alone
you call me poison,
and inject me with my fears.
Dear friend,
you twist your knife into my heart
only to take it out
and stab me again.
you know I drown easy,
yet you always push me off the edge.
dear friend,
you kill me with your kindess
and cut me with your smile
so dear friend,
I guess now is a time as good as any to say
that you are not my friend at all.
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