velvety friend

if not for you i'd drowned in all those teardrops that haunt me
run off my cheek and dip on my bottom lip

salty taste but bitterly swallowed
capsules for lonliness, flaw-filled medicine
for a lackluster dance,

but you, you saved me my velvety friend
in my self demise you prolonged my dance
soothed my pallate, enriched my thoughts
the quick fix i had always sought

like the "Man" i had become
i boistrously reached for another one
and when you decided to leave me
and take all the fun with you
the lights were no more bright,
His blood i had disavowed and in that divine rejection
i had to swallow another bitter pill
now i reached manhood i'm half the man i used to be