Betrayal

 
My friends have died –

The ties are broken.

My brothers, I thought –

Friendship was but a token.

 

Betrayal of friendship –

The cruelest of sins,

It’s happened to me –

But never again.

 

The very ones I trusted –

They meant the most to me.

Betrayal of the friendship –

They felt it should be.

 

October 22, 1993