A friend of a friend

Other peoples pain, grief and sorrow, it seems to all be the same as mine
Everyone is struggling, and convincing the world by saying they're feeling fine
The issues are there, but everyone constantly carries that familiar smile
To forget what lies beneath and to feel normal, even if it's only for a short while
The grief a person carries, brings an instant pressure and tightness to my heart
Why should they feel this way, can't I take a look and maybe create a work of art

People from the past and the present, have evolved as the time has run it's course
Every little detail contributing to a person's person and journey, without force
Changing as every day, every month, every year, every decade, keeps on going by
Every event and every relationship, setting the pattern on which they come to rely
It happens without realizing, when people are selfless and compassionate and giving
Forgetting what it is, that gives the soul the energy to keep on living

A friend of a friend, going through a time that may be so hard and soul-destroying
But the other friend of this friend, has only everything to always be enjoying
Who determines someones grief that is thrown upon someones' apparent bliss
The unfairness is huge as happiness was a brief touch or a short but tempting kiss
Lessons that come along with the sorrow one has built-up throughout the years
Are not destroying like the pain and grief, but valuable like the constant tears

Being a child, with the world at its' little fingers, hands, toes and feet
15 years later is when the roads suddenly cross and it's where they both meet
Again and again, after all this time and after traveling through so much space
Someone's life is just like yours, with a poem and a rhyme parttaking in the race
She and I were both children back then, but underneath needing and wanting to express
Feeling this passion while events create a habit and this talent lets us confess

Understanding the trauma and seeing the journey as something amazing and great
Is compassionate and true but may not be that friend of a friends' natural state
If others can see and hear or if they choose to stay oblivious to the actual fact
Is everyone's own choice, but concern arises for the level of their tact
A lifetime of enemies or a world of friends providing their unique form of aid
Is worth it's weight in gold and acceptance of their dealing shows you have it made

Going through it all to eventually give everything and coming out the other end
Or seeing someone with all their grief and feeling it so badly, you can't pretend
Does it show that that friend of a friend has more problems than I want to take
Or are all issues of a different nature but ones' happiness is always at stake
Maybe the exaggeration is more the point and the self-pity goes down to the core
Who is to say what the answer is and why my pain should always be so much more

Digging deep, day after day, night after night, hour after hour, it never leaves
Knowing about a friend of a friend, makes me want to be the person who receives
Can I possibly take it all away from any given person, it doesn't matter who
Or make the strain and anger easier to bare and for the worries to only be a few
I'll never be able and I'll never know how and I'll never take it all away
But I'd be happy if it were just a little and to offer a slightly brighter day..