Betrayed by a FRIEND.

I remember the time not long ago when we laughed and shared it all, when we were the very best of friends or at least that's what I thought. He has been my best friend since childhood, attended the same primary and secondary schools, we all stood together through the tears and laughter, today the tears are mutual, they're just in my eyes. It has since become my past to get walked over by you. For the first time I've moved so far from you. You can stand there and laugh or sit there and smile, you can't trick me again, I know its a mask, you're trying to lie to me and everyone else. The relationship we had as friends is more than one can hold in the hand, it feels like it could never break, then suddenly like the break of dawn it did. You think you can control my mood, guess you were wrong, we said we'll be friends till the end, but you stabbed me in the back and took what was mine. Now what we had, we can't get back. Do you remember when we trusted each other with everything? The bad times came but we went through them strong. When I said friends, I don't mean Facebook buddies or Twitter followers, I mean REAL friends. People I could/would call if I was down to my last dime and needed a pint of milk or received a very bad news and needed a strong shoulder to lean on. Best friends anchor us, cheer us up from the sidelines and listen to our problems without judgement. They know everything about our personalities that Facebook buddies and Twitter followers will never know. I can recall when you and apologised personally and promised never to repeat it again only to go back and do something worst than what you did before. Initially I was engulfed in doubt, trying hard to figure who you really are, alas you shed more light on who you really are, not to me alone but to the whole world. That was when I realised we've gone far apart since you brought personal sentiment into our friendship when you aided one of your own to take what was mine. The thing that you did for your brother, its Impressive. I trusted you but now your words mean nothing because your actions justifies who you are. I can recall when in school you've been telling me lies about my I.D Card that got lost though you sent a strong signal about your betrayal but I was too blinded to see, hence I entrusted you with almost everything mine, never for a second did I think a thing would go wrong with my right hand man but go wrong, it did. I won't go into the details because it'll only bore you and so I made the most painful and at the same time wisest decision that regardless of any rethink or comebacks, our friendship is definitely over! Something happened to me when our relationship died, something happened to me when we said goodbye and that thing is Strength. I had the strength to walk away and dissolve the relationship we had as friends since childhood. Despite the urge to lambest him to anyone who would listen, I refrained, internalised the process and decide to alchemise the experience into a lesson in loss. Although the whole betrayal came into light in august last year and you were unmasked somewhere between april and march this year. I can honestly say its only now that I've felt suitably recovered to discuss and reflect on it objectively, I also realised that I'm not the only one in this world that has been betrayed by a close friend and so I decide to write it down.