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One friend is sad

The other hates life

Another is mad

And more are in strife

 

Then why am I happy?

I’m living on a cloud

I’m always so peppy

And have reasons to be proud

 

When my friends need rescue

I’m a sympathetic soul

But how can I feel cut in two

When I’ve always been whole?

 

How am I supposed to empathize

With what I’ve never felt?

Should I maybe deemphasize

The feelings with which I’ve always dwelt?

 

Do I change nothing

Staying blind to what they feel,

Or do I love nothing

And let gloom take the wheel?

 

Should I only let darkness in my sight

So I can feel like my friend?

Or to them should I be a light

So they know it’s not the end?

 

Thus my inner turmoil sings

With pleads to understand

And with which my soul does ring

With yearning to take their hand

 

I want to say “it’ll all be okay”

But would my friends believe me?

To me, it’s always been this way

So how do I set them free?

 

This is all so confusing

But maybe I don’t need to revise

Maybe I’m doing enough and improving

So my happiness I won’t need to compromise

 

When they’re lost

Their path I can illuminate

After dangerous terrain they’ve crossed

Safety for them I can communicate

 

When they seem to forget

I can pull their mind back

To where who they are isn’t a threat

A safe place where their feelings we can unpack

 

If they start to panic

I’ll try to calm their mind

Their thoughts wild, tangled, and frantic

We can work to unwind

 

And when they're trapped in darkness, in pain they cannot hide,

In where the world to them, it seems, is anything but kind

I can help them heal and grow to see the other side

Though their life may be full of it, in me contention they won’t find

 

I don’t have to know what my friends are going through

To be the friend they need

Even if the world’s untrue

In honesty our lives can lead

 

Be there for the ones you fill with care

Lend a loving heart and hand

Keep far from all the sorrow and despair

Be a friend and understand

 

Sometimes friendships are what we rely upon

The only rock in our foundation 

So together we must keep them going strong

For friends are the reasons of our creation