Friend

She asked me,

“Well, do you like him?”

I said,

“Yes, I do. You know that. I love him.”

“Then why would you not go?”

She knows this answer too, yet she had to ask.

“He dissed me, skipped my feature,

Said he was not well.  

Then scheduled this, his own feature.”

I explained.

She looks at me and says nothing.

Her silence speaks to me.

“He must be well now.

You should go.

Your friendship runs deeper than that.

Your years are long.

He has already given you more than he’s taken.

Don’t be that guy.

You hate THAT guy.”