Real Friend Poem by Caroline Bulleck

She looks at her friends in the broken glass
And when she turns they again disappear
Her friends don't have their own Shadows cast
They can't comforter when she sheds a tear
People don't ask why she loves her friends
They always listen but never respond
They can't help her, and her hurt they can't mend
Her heart's been lanced with a skewer, two pronged
So you watch her, copying her every move
They're mute and can't choose feelings of Their Own
She trusts them but loyalty can't be proved
Her friends make her feel even more alone
She looks in the glass but sees something else
And finally, for once, it's not herself.