blood
is thicker than water
so
they say
what
does that mean anyway?
neither
is fated to endure.
is a
stain of dehydration superior than the scar of its previous scab?
water
vaporizes
blood
clots
trust
no one
friendship
becomes a chalk outline
under
foot of the next “friend”
“best
friends” are myths…
there
are only better friends
secrets
held by a trusted confidant are almost immediately divulged
to
the better friend in an expression of trust
“look
at the secret i can keep,
i
only told you,
just
don’t tell anyone i told you this”
it’s
all so damn transparent once you are aware of the hierarchy of
“friendship”
and
where you place within it
every
“friend”, at one point, has said
unkind,
untrue,
or
unfaithful
things
behind your back
to a
better friend than you.
“sure,
i like him,
just
not as well as i like you,
i’m
only saying these things because you are my ‘better’ friend”
or
so the thought process goes.
and
now you are expected to trust this person who is the judas to christ?
the
operative word in trust being rust
the
degradation and deterioration of friendship
trust
no one
kinship
becomes the new skin of second-rate creation.
“oh
i see you’re bleeding.
here
let me take care of that for you
with
this repulsive scab.
don’t
worry, its only temporary.
it
will fall off and leave
a
nice pink chunk of gristle
where
your flesh used to be.”
does
it matter if blood is thicker than water?
blood’s
first instinct is to run
then
when it realizes that death is imminent, it stands up and begins to
coagulate
and crust over with
nastiness
and resentment
bitterness
and hatred
gossip
and backbiting
but
alas, in the end, a scar remains
long
after the water has been
consumed
by its own evaporatory demise
blood
will indeed outlast water
but
only after several masks have been put on
trust
no one
and
then there is love
easy
enough to utter and proclaim
abandonment
of the hierarchy of kith and kin for the one true love
“therefore
shall a man cleave unto his wife and none else”
a
cleaver: a brutal tool used in the separation of meat
coincidence?
love
the
highest level of friendship and kinship
yet
still not the “best friend”
there
is still the remote possibility of a better friend to be made
a
self-serving beast by design
adoration
given
pales
in comparison to
adoration
received
wherein
lies the beast of deception
it
is a god-complex
not
in the matter of power and control
but
in the constant need for glorification
“praise
me, adore me, worship me,
and
if you don’t
i
will destroy you and those associated with you”
infidelity
of love is the ultimate act of betrayal.
abuse,
suicide,
murder
have
been committed in its name
it
is not the judas-christ treason,
it
is abolishment and denial of the existence of god
trust
no one
friends
will betray
family
will abandon
love
will destroy
trust
no one
by Derek Herzberg
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