What does friendship actually mean?
Friend - (Noun): 1. A person who knows, likes, and trusts, someone else.
2. A member of The Society of Friends: Quaker.
But...here is the real life defintion of friendship....
Friend : One who is in complete trust of someone, and would help them no matter the cost. Right
or wrong, and will fight tooth and nail for someone. Someone who will be honest, and tell you
their opinions on different matters, even through love, and hardship, they will never let you
down and will always be there. Someone who will serve as a crutch when you fall, and lift you
back up. Someone who will lend an ear so you can vent your anger, and someone who will not
run from you when you make changes in your life. Someone who will always stand up for you
when you can not, or will not. Some one who will show that they actually care what you do with
your life and will support you no matter what. Those are your true friends. Those are the people
that actually care, and even though the lines may be blurred at times, you will see your true
friends when something dramatic happens in your life. They will always be there!
I look at my mother with tears in her eyes
As she pleads with me to truly understand
Please stop with your vices she persists and demands
I laugh in her face and back out the door once more
I fancy my life I laugh at the rest
Who think toiling and studying is what's best
I have my youth at my side, my beauty is my strength
I do what I want, my life in pleasure must be spent
I look at my mother with tears in her eyes
As she pleads with the doctor to help me stand
She has AIDS he responds, the tests came back
That is why all this strength I so lack
I live my life with ART's now, two years have past
Knowledge I impart to the young at heart
I deeply regret all the chioces I made
But I cannot go back it is far too late
So I talk to the teens and the youth I guide now
And tell them all about the dangers I would vow
I explain all the repercussions of my lack of self control
So stay away from drugs, and only do good and uphold
Stay true to yourself, I tell them enthusiastically
For positivity and abstinance results in HIV negativity
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