The death of a friendship

By Rishon Mathew Titus

I lost a friend recently. Not as in he passed away but as in we weren’t the same friends we once were. We were once the closest companions one could imagine, it was us against the world and nothing and no one could come in between us. But the passage of time breaks down everything, now happy birthday wishes, unread texts and unanswered calls are all that remains of a friendship that once used to be, the broken fragments left behind by a decade of camaraderie.

The song and books tell us off broken love, it tells us of broken romance but no one talks about the death of a friendship. The eventual fading away of emotions and feelings ,replaced by new ones for new people. And you can’t say goodbye and you can’t confront because how do you do that? How do you ask someone why years of friendship had to be thrown away? And how do you tell them that the worse part is you both know that you’re happier now and that there’s no going back? And you see them in the streets and the hallways, always there but yet never within reach. You try reaching out your hand but it stops just before it reaches them

Like the flowers that once bloomed and then fell off the tree and finally turned to dust , a friendship that once bloomed but now its fragrance is left behind in old photos and memories.

Yes the poets and artists tell us of broken love and broken hearts

But no one sings of the death of a friendship.

By Rishon Mathew Titus