Message To My Faithful Friend Poem by Alexandrian Ink

Faithful friend, since nothing last forever,
One day, I perceive, you will be my flatterer;
This may surly hap, but first be acquainted
You with me, we have always been one
And ever since then I have never been alone;
For so seldom is such a love undivided.

Words are as free as the wind
Faithful friend is hard to find,
Me finding you, I have seen my clone.
There's jealousy in love, love bears that name,
As nothing last forever, love itself is the same
But let a love remain even if we're done.

Roses have thorns, silver fountains mud
Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud
All men have faults, even I in this
Beauty allures, yet beauty a deceiver
All mortals with infirmities, so we are
To my faults, I prithee, don't be amiss.

Nature per se, nature calls for that,
When to my faults your eyes strongly dart;
Then to my trespasses you will compare
From the guilty raise to virtuous fall,
Ah, take it not so, redress my tainted wall,
Alas, our loves have met from where weaknesses are.

All youth is young, all young not youth,
All truth is bitter, all bitter not truth;
Then censure me in thy fair counsel
Is my youth crabbed, or my truth sweeter
That even to my best friend nothing last forever
If life is so, ipso facto, this is my tale.

Ali Alexon
Feb.3 2018