Your Friend Is Your Friend In Distress
Genius Friends are Pieces of Pearls
Poem by: Freeyad Ibrahim
Your friend
Is your friend
In distress
Who makes you genuinely
cry
Not who makes you
falsely laugh
high
Your friend is your friend
Who gives you a hand
Without asking you
Why
Some of you
Are proud of numerous
Friends
Lo…Genius friend,
like piece of pearls
low in number
In price..high
Neverjudge over friends
Wait until you try them
Just then you can decide
Whether they tell truth
Or lie
My father mocked at me
When I once said
I have ten friends
As youth
But he made me
Shy
‘One and half friend
My son
Have
I..'
He smiled at me sweetly
To defy:
(the complete ONEprotected me
with his body
Ready for me to die
The other HALF
came forth with all he possessed
Green and dry..'
I heard my grandfather
in his grave whispering:
‘If you doubt the loyalty of your friends,
let them go
If they come back to you,
they were always yours
If not
They were never yours..! '
Try…
Freyad Hugo
Heerenveen
November,2020
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem