Friendship(repost)
FRIENDSHIP
Ten thousand days and ten thousand nights I sought,
A real friend, whom I call , indeed, not at all yet I got.
“A friend in need is a friend indeed”, so goes the rule;
Need at effective moment judges alliance on the whole.
Friends are many and appearing in variegated forms,
Summer friends thus handshake at good time platforms;
And disappear when bad time knock at the door way,
Leaving behind the partner alone in the perilous sea bay.
Friends screening empathy on defeat, anguish and failure,
Not befall glad in comrade’s yield, gain or triumph ensure;
Yet they are the friends at least to show sympathy alone,
Possesses dim view, always prefers links in violin tone.
Thus becomes glad expressing grief and empathize them
Never thinks associate be content and add-ons in self fame.
They don’t want or don’t know congratulate the winner,
Rather likes to behave all the times in a sadistic manner.
They are still far better than the summer friends group,
Not detrimental as they never toss alleys in hot soup.
Friend who speaks sweet in front and curses behind,
Like the venomous pitcher filled in elixir at the top end.
These ruinous class of friends ought to be shunted down,
Better to be alone, rather than that friendship one to own.
I like friend who do not lament in grief but acts on it,
Who waves heartiest congratulations in victory and profit.
Unsought even though who appears in sorrow and in peace,
In absence of whom one feels something might have miss.
He is only the friend in need and is the real friend I behold,
Ten thousand days and nights I sought of such dear gold.
******* ARUN MAZUMDER *********
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Submitted on December 06, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,611 |
Words | 287 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 30 |
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