What is it of a best friend

                                                                                 Author: Kate Ter Haar

Image: Loving My Red Paint Brush  (here)

What is it of a best friend
Not all the time by your side
Though ever willing to give a helping hand
Extending empathy a shoulder to cry on

What is it of a best friend
Feisty little darling in good times
Meddlesome sometimes and an irritant
But a joy to be around with

What is it of a worst kind of best friend
Sneaking with a Brutus’ ploy
To stab in the back
Or a Cassius’ stance
Of ever suspicious character

But one of a best friend
Who is more than all that!

Extending inspiration
Stroke by stroke in richness
Colourful in softness
Fulfillment of gaps and emptiness
An answer to writer’s block intruding
Just one waiting to be picked
Of various types and stature
Not answering back
Nor biting when angered
To be dipped and splashed freely
When required
Without nary of  objections
Ever willing
To capture my imaginations
In hues rich of colour

Of glaring red, a burning of desire

Of red and blazing in anger

Eyes twitching ready to pounce
Though often times
I was guilty of leaving it alone
seething with neglect

A best friend always by my side!

My paint brushes

Rosemary at Poets and Storytellers United - 

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