Hello My Friend Poem by Khethiwe Ramathuthu

Hello My friend

Oh, how I have missed you.

I missed your smell, your taste and the happy places you take me too.

But why do you delight in my misery?

Why won’t you let me be happy without you?

Why does your love cost me my family, my job, my health, dignity and everything that I love except you?

You knew I would come back to you once I had been to the happy place.

You knew you were bad for me and yet you still took me anyway.

Don’t you love me?

And if you do not love me why is it that you are the only one who does not judge me and who accepts me?

Is that not what love is?

But why do you delight in my misery?

Why won’t you let me be happy without you?

I am the point of death.

You have finally cost me my life.

Please let me go, my family loves me see how their crying and begging me to stay with them.

Goodbye my friend please let me go.

Your love is not free, it only brings shame and hurt to me and the people around me.

Please let me go, because you are not my friend no more, because you never were a true friend.

Let me live.