Friends Trusted & Tested Poem by John Sensele

Friends, old and new, plane lives
Cutting off heaps of rough edges
Polishing arteries, pruning anvils and pasting quality until their love drives
You forward to a better you with their potent pledges.

Friends, trusted and tested, bless
Your life with their love and advice
Saving you tonnes and tonnes of stress
With genuine, limpid love twice or thrice at no price.

Friends, genuine and constant, spare
You loads of pain with their support
Offered with no strings attached in a rare
Show of affection and succor to lead to a safe empathy port.

Friends, in real time, nourish
Lives they touch at a deep level
Where they enable you to flourish
By elevating your morale and pruning evil.