Fake friends

is anyone really your friend?

Pretend like you are interested in my life

call me a friend to your other acquaintances

pass me a knife to stab into my own back

watch me bleed

it will make for a good story

to tell at your next party

surrounded by people you don't really know

do you even know yourself? 

please don't forget about your ego 

it is almost as fake as you. 

Reviews

[Haley]

Fake friends are some of the worst people to have in your life, constantly questioning whether or not you could trust them, believe them. They cause you to second guess and move as if you were on eggshells. Much better to try and avoid them or learn how to identify and get them out of your life - easier said than done though! Good job!

[Nix is typing...]

I used to have a friend like this. Emphasis on "used to", until she stabbed me in the back and twisted the knife, now all she's asking for is a fight, as many poems as I've written, I wonder why I haven't written about my hatred for her. My ex-best fake friend. I loved this poems, very inspiring! 100/100

[Just Kim]

I know quite a few people like this.

[Patricia]

This reminds me about something my father taught me when I was in high school after I was burned by a “friend”and it always stuck with me for the last hundred years or so...people you meet in school are acquaintances and aren’t friends until they are still around after. He wasn’t wrong now that I look back. Funny, I haven’t thought about that for years.... just my thought to a painful poem, good work of it, vent away

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Fake friends are often not secure enough in who they are to be real and authentic. They struggle with selfishness, jealousy, and insecurities that keep them from being a true friend. You're reflective poetic 'observation' exqusitely highlights this issue, in a well written constructive way - great share - :-)

[Yellow Submarine.]

I like it! Well vented! I've been there many times. It sucks!

I wrote a similar one last year called fakers. You got this one.

[whatrachelwrites]

thank you so much! it really means a lot to me for people to read and enjoy my work. I feel though it is a good thing to realise that although there is a lot of fake people around it is not a reflection on you more a reflection on them, and it is not a very fulfilling life to lead! ill give yours a read

[Yellow Submarine.]

Very true. Thank you!