Friends With Benefits

Your friends with benefits are no true friend:
as (au contraire!) your friends when used are a
perverse weed from which you must then defend
against when trust and friendship sweep away;
your friends aren't lovers' toys to be abused
or spent on reckless nights of screwing (them)
where prudence is forsaken and unused
because you just feel like it on a whim.
But if you choose to love your now good friend(s)
then do so at your own risk and danger  
as oftener than not you'll in the end  
only create just another stranger:
     if you err in this but ne'er broke your word, 
     then this you may forswear you read or heard.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015


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Date: 1/21/2015 12:51:00 AM
I like sonnets and this one is well written...very meaningful... best wishes,nad!
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Ngoc Nguyen
Date: 1/21/2015 7:46:00 AM
Thank you, nad, for the praise and best wishes! Ngoc. :-D
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