Asking For a Friend

If you know the truth in the words to a story

Can be hidden amid secret deceit

Should you read between the lines?

Asking for a friend.

If you hear a telltale whisper that sounds like a lie

Carried in the branches of a willow tree,

Should you wait and listen for them to bend?

Asking for a friend.

If you perceive what looks like a sin

Repeating itself as only habits can,

Should you brush it off time and again?

Asking for a friend.

If you know something to be wrong,

Even when it might seem all right,

Should you take action to make it end?

Asking for a friend.

If you know it is bringing you down,

And keeping you awake at night,

How do you know when is then?

Asking for a friend.

Asking for a friend.

02.02.18

© Kerri L. Stanley