What Are We Friends For? Poem by Ayokunle Adeleye

What are we friends for
If I can't stay in your room;
If you are seeing a movie
And I can't see it with you?

What are we friends for
If I have to time my stay;
If after the long arm moves through 90 degrees
I must be on my way?

What are we friends for
If your company I eschew;
If I'd rather be with strangers
Than spend time with you?

For i am to make new friends
While keeping the old;
The one is meant to be silver
And the other gold

But won't I have to make new friends
While discarding you- the old
For the new friend is accommodating
And old you is cold?

Or am I to play Mona Lisa-
Sad but smiling-
Waiting till a new friend, a deliverer
Becomes my glad tiding?

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