Whose Words Meant All Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

I've never had a friend who didn't hurt me,
I'm told that's just the price of getting close

I've never had a friend to not desert me,
it's always been the thing I hated most

I've never had a friend who crosses over
that line so far away and growing thin

I've never had a friend that I could count on
—whose words meant all to me but not to him

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July,2018)
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