“Fair Weather Friends” copyright 2012 John J. Rigo, upcoming poetry book, “Passion Amidst Apathy”

 

Courtesy of lomography.com

 

Commentary for July 2nd, 2013:  I recently had what I thought was a kind of angel come into my life.  I quickly found out it was one those mid forties “facebook-kind-of-freaks” who did not believe in phone calls or personal contacts with people but enjoyed the diversion of e-mail and texts and that was about it, in terms of relationships.  Both my wife and I tried to reach out to her with the hand of friendship but it was to no avail.  We certainly have come into a strange society where folks live more in the twilight zone than the real world.

 

 

Thru Seventy years of life on this world

there has been a few lessons of life

that were difficult to learn

 

Knowing the difference

between true friendships and Fair Weather Friends

was one of the hardest lessons of all.

 

In  discovering that vast difference in friendships

I believe we live in a form of self-denial

in realizing the differences.

 

I am now painfully aware

that the best friends I ever had

are now long dead.

 

Thank you Lord

for being to me

the friend that no other is.

 

As my Father once related to me

“One could live a lifetime and be able to count

the true friends they would have had

on one hand.”

 

I have been blessed in my lifetime

to have had two of those real friends

with now my Lord

as my constant Third. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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