Do I seek your friendship

Because that is only what I can hope to find

Unafraid of rejection

No demands of the physical kind

Do I stifle that woman

That still dwells somewhere alive in me

Snuffing out her life

Mercilessly attributing it all to destiny

Do I too wear a smile

Bolted and screwed so tight into place

So that not a single yearn

Can escape, and with longing the smile replace

To rave and rant I want

Crying aloud at the grim unfairness of it all

Why, just why could not

I have found, someone who answered my call