The Best Friend

How could I be
With you all the time
When your face still
Makes me lose my mind?

How can I just offer my shoulder,
Whenever he makes you cry
When I know better that
You’re the reason why?

How can I stand
In the corner and hide
When you’re with him
And it hurts me so inside?

How can I end up
Not saying anything
When my heart can’t find words
To express what I’m feeling?

How can I just smile
And say that I’m happy for you
When I found out that you’re getting married
And it makes me blue?

How can I risk
Being in love with you
When we both know
That this will never be true?

How can I let you say goodbye
When you own my heart
While we promised before
Till death do us part.

How can I not hate myself
For everything I didn’t do
Especially since I know deep inside
That I still love you.

The Best Friend

The Best Friend
By Shiri Chizumi

How can I just stand here
And watch you pretend to be happy
When we both know that he doesn’t love you
And he just longs to be free?

How can I just comfort you
And tell you that he doesn’t mean to hurt you
When I felt the pain and the sorrow
That you have went through?

How can I say the words
“fight for your what you believe in”
when he doesn’t even seem to notice you
and this builds a gap in between?

How can I just watch you cry in the darkness
Muttering his name in your sleep
Trying to control myself from crying
Because of my secret that I promised to keep

How can I make myself smile
In spite of what I see in your eyes
Making me tell you everything’s alright
Surrounding yourself with all these lies

How can I share
This last dance with you
When we both know it’s not me you want
But the one who has hurt you?

And how can I find the courage
To say what I have been feeling all these years
When you only see me as your best friend
As keep this to myself and fight back all the tears…