A Lasting Friendship! Poem by Ramesh T A

Desire, interest and like mindedness unite all as friends;
Understanding and communication maintain friendship;
Secrets and promises are kept up among reliable friends;
Reconciliation and reciprocation unite again old friends.

Lip service, flattery, hypocrisy and immaturity are naughty
In the so called friendship that takes friends no where!
Jealousy, envy, hatred and anger never keep friendship.
Enemy of enemy is a friend, a strategy of war that lasts
As long as the mission proceeds and ends then and there.

A friend only shoulders and lifts up one when all led down;
A friend only gives happiness and entertainment to hopeless;
A friend only can know meaning of silence and stimulate;
A friend only understands and gives company to the last!

Giving and taking are then and there forgotten in friendship;
There are no differences of understanding among close friends;
Friendship lasts only among honest, worthy and true friends;
Friendship rejoices in accruing benefits and forgetting status!

A true friend never lets down one at anytime in the world;
He gives ideas, guidance and helps both in private and public.
But a fox like foe in the garb of lamb decimates whole herd
Misguiding, giving wrong advice and leg pulling with a smile!

For a nation friends can be changed but neighbours cannot be;
Friendship with all but submission to none is the motto of wise.
United friendship only can fight and win against formidable foes!
A lasting friend is indeed an asset for friendship of men, nations!