Think for yourself

A friend in need

is a friend indeed,

but what when your need

is the cost of his own need?

Many a song sung,

many a poem penned

-how, in hardship, the friendship persists

alas, in songs 'n' poems, it only exists.

think for yourself -is the need of today,

deceive and trample, even if you may,

riding the right to wrong your friend,

for your need is the only need in the end!