Best Friend

My best friend didn’t listen to me

“Don’t listen to your doctor”, but they couldn’t see

When one doesn’t have a background in science and one doesn’t know

How things operate to keep on the go

Toxicity permeates our whole environment

But if you are oblivious you can’t read the font

Maybe that is an easier way to live

Believing the lies and deceptions they give

I watch people decline right before my eyes

It doesn’t matter if I inform them with multiple tries

It is their journey that their soul is on

It’s my job to support until they are gone

I can’t make decisions for them, I can’t

It doesn’t help them or me to rave and then rant

That actually will have a negative impact on my health

So I stand by with an awareness and stealth

I observe as people make their own choices good or bad

I feel grief yes and very much sad

But by knowing - not me- but God is in control

I have done right by both of us in the contact of soul

Heidi Lobstein MSN, RN 2026