When Trust Is Betrayed

In the schoolyard of the primary school where young friendships are made
As children they laughed and as children they played
And into their teenage years their bond of friendship grew
They enjoyed a friendship that is known to few.

In her early twenties a few years short of her life's prime
One of the friends fell in love for the first time
A handsome young fellow had come into her life
She dreamed of the day she would become his wife.

She fell pregnant to him gave birth to his son
But love's ways are fickle when all is said and done
He would not marry her and he left her in tears
It is true love's disappointments can live on for years.

Her son joined the army as a twenty year old man
But he was brought home in a box from Vietnam
Her son it is said as a true hero died
But by love and by war of happiness she was denied.

Her friend of her young years her trust did betray
With the man she did love as his wife she does stay
Their love it has withstood the great test of time
Their beautiful grand-daughters in their life's prime.

Best friends in their young years and bitter enemies today
That's life as the cynical person would say
The bitterness that is between them won't fade
But this is what happens when trust is betrayed.