I Thought I Was Your Best Friend

What does it feel like when you finally realise that someone whom you considered a very close family friend for 10 years (and someone whom you and your family have supported financially and non-financially most of the time) has been using you (and your family!!) for financial purposes all the time? Well, it has happened to me now; this so-called “family friend” showed her true colours with rather acerbic language when I asked her to return some of my money. A week later, her husband shamelessly asked me to help him book a ticket and I told him about her behaviour; now she has blocked me on Whatsapp. So, I am writing a poem to pour out my feelings about this traumatic experience; here goes the content:

I thought I was your best friend

Alas! Only was I, your means to an end

So much for you, have I done

Now, have you left me alone

And shattered my heart into a gazillion pieces

It is an UTTER injustice!

I thought I was your best friend

However, have you put an end

To a ten-year-old relationship

You are a proverbial rat that deserts a sinking ship

I thought you really liked me

But you only liked my MONEY

“Friends” like you are worse than enemies

Because, they destroy our inner peace!!

I thought I was your best friend

And we had a beautiful bond

However, you took advantage of me

And never allowed me to be free

You were a domineering vixen

Who always gave me pain

Taking financial help all the time

For me, you never truly cared a dime!!

I thought I was your best friend

But never did you actually consider me a friend

Though I helped you so much

Hell, even my family helped you so much

You were supposed to be my family friend

However, did you turn out to be much worse than a fiend!!

I thought I was your best friend

But you turned out to be my worst friend

You and your precious husband

Bled me to no end

With ticket bookings and mobile recharges galore

Thanks to you, did I have to go through a lot of mental torture!!

I thought I was your best friend

And was very very proud

However, you did much worse than break my heart

Mentally, did you tear me apart

And brought me to my very nadir

Your words hurt me to the core!!

I thought I was your best friend

Brutally, did you prove me wrong in the end

Not a bit of gratitude, do you possess

In life, you do not deserve success

All that you have, do you deserve to lose

Because, never will you let anyone live in peace

Thank you for teaching me an extremely harsh but much-needed lesson

Instead of being with you, it is even better to be alone

Goodbye and try to become a better human being for the Lord’s sake

Otherwise, in you, will there be nothing at all to like!!