Friendship Misnomer Poem by John Sensele

Friends share quality time
Which affords them opportunities to enjoy cosy company.
Friends don't depend on a dime
Which undergoes an accountant's double entry scrutiny.

Friends cannot transmute into statistics
Kept by number crunchers.
Friends share human, sentimental characteristics
Which don't reduce to statistic munchers.

Friends respect one another
‘Cos they share an emotional attachment
As if they were sister and brother
For whom it's anathema to accommodate detachment.

Friends seek to outgrow their ephemeral ego
By imbibing feeds from kindred souls
With whom incompleteness they forgo
As always they strive to achieve common goals.

Friends never become chattels
Priced or counted on Facebook
Or in real time battles
Sometimes captured in a misunderstanding hook.