Friends

What does a friend define?
Be it undying love, or total loyalty?
Ensuring company, destroying loneliness?
For if it be so, then I have none.
Those duplicitous drones who do me plague
both day in and day out, nay they be not friends
for they care only when I be in view.
They think only of me whilst in the same room,
or when a favor do they need.
Though they are there but half the time
and lonely am I now,
their companionship doth push me on
and keep me on stable ground.
A friend need not be constant as a star of north
nor loyal the day of death,
they only need give you purpose
and the slightest reason to live.