What does friend mean to you...

What does friend mean to you?
A word so wrongfully abused
Are you like me, confused
All included but you

Alone...

The sounds of silence often soothe
Shapes and colors shift with mood
Pupils widen and change their hue
Rapid brown avoid clear blue

Why's it have to be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way

Flowers watched through wide eyes blue
A child sings an unclaimed tune
Innocence spins cold cocoon
Grow to see the pain too soon

Why's it have to be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
-AIC

I work with her, I play ball with her... and now she's moving and wants to know if there is a vacant apartment in my building. There is, but I'm not telling.

Why?

Because I believe that friendship doesn't include constantly putting the other person down or showing how you are (supposedly) better than the other person, even if it's in a joking fashion. A friend should be someone I can openly talk to about things, not one who doesn't continually try to one-up me, call me names they know bother me, tease me in front of co-workers, and make comments that hint that she thinks she's better than me at this, that and the other.

I can't consider someone who treats me like that a friend. And I sure don't want that person in my vicinity 24 hours a day.

You and you and you and you and you and you are friends; she is not.