True Friends or Make Believe?

In times of trouble or dismay,
remember the people at your side?

if this seems like the norm,
the usual friend story,
then you might not read on.
but i assure you,
this is something different.

Half of those people by your side,
they are your worst fear,
they are the people who are fake,
the ones who win your trust,
so that they can personally gain from you.

these people are the kind of people
that are the hardest to sniff out.
they will carefully stab your back
in such a way that you can barely know.
by the time you do,
it's already too late.

these sort of losers,
they will always be around,
just when you are influential and rich,
they drift here and there
and stick to their targets,
they will be like your best of friend,
till your usefulness is sucked dry.

then again,
there are people who seem to have disappeared,
but they are still your friends,
these people are harder to find,
they prefer helping in the dark,
cause they do not want credit.

i love those people.
hardly do you find them,
when they help you, they do not accept thanks,
they do not want to be noticed,
these my friends, are the true friends,
they disappear cause they know
that you'd prefer being left alone.

if we all continue thinking that this world,
is so easily read,
we will never find our true friends
we will always miss out the people
who can really be loyal to us.
open your eyes and look around you,
who's real and who's fake.